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...dust clears from the Patriots relocation scare, support for the $700 million project appears to have diminished. The new Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who also owns Foxborough Stadium, will keep the football club in Massachusetts. Thus, there is no longer an urgent need to entice the owner with the benefits of a state-funded football wonderland. And now liberal state politicians are wondering aloud whether other projects might better serve their constituents...
...Cambridge politicos are divided on the issue, which was put on the legislative back burner since new Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who owns the Foxborough stadium where the team now plays, has not publicly stated his position on the Megaplex...
...milk the story for sharp laughs. Last week he read an "NBC memo" regarding the intellectual properties Dave may not use on CBS: the letters N, B or C ("legally they're ours"); the term Letterman ("because it originated with the singing group who appeared on NBC's Kraft Music Hall with Eddy Arnold in 1970"); and the phrase "pinhead network executives" ("Pinhead network executives are the exclusive property...
...daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring the fat and ugly). His mental videotape also conjures, or recalls, a young Thai girl blown...
These desperate, obsessively repeated evocations of a fouled world are brutally convincing. But they are merely grotesque, shifting stage sets, not the novel's action. And the failing of Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough...