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Miguel Street's best rhetorician is a broad-sterned woman named Laura, who has had eight children by seven men. "Man, she like Shakespeare when it come to using words," says a man who is inexplicably called Hat. Tenderly, Laura gives her brood the rough side of her tongue: "Alwyn, you broadmouth brute, come here," and "Lorna, you black bowleg bitch, why you can't look what you doing...
...Laura is not the street's only eccentric. There is Big Foot, a solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe. There is Man-Man, who writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag...
...three older sisters, hovering nurses and governesses, and a doting mother. His father taught him caution and thrift; he had to account every week for all the money he earned in household chores, was docked 1? for such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which he never broke, to abstain from "tobacco, profanity and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages...
...Morgan slowly comes to accept death, while Rebeck once again accepts the fact of life. The plot tends to unravel, rather than unwind, but even the spectral characters are vivid, and their collisions are often touching and funny-particularly when women are involved. Morgan entwines with a shade named Laura, who has left her body behind with relief, while Rebeck meets a sensible Brooklyn widow, who tries to lead him back to reality, if that's what Brooklyn can be called...
...Hartford housewives, Mrs. Barbara Sanzo, mother of five, and Mrs. Laura Pope, mother of four, the women formed the Connecticut Milk Consumers Association to agitate against state milk laws that made it easy to keep prices high, particularly a 30-year-old law forbidding the sale of milk in economy-size half-gallon and gallon jugs. Holding public meetings, going on radio and TV pressuring legislators, the women raised such a rumpus that Connecticut's legislature passed a pair of bills legalizing both half-gallon and gallon jugs. But even then milk prices stayed high until a supermarket chain...