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With a haircut, a couple of breath mints, and wearing its job-hunting clothes, this bluesy ramble about being down but not quite out in Texas might pass as the loosest-jointed novel in years. As things are, call it a collection of related stories, some short, some tall, and some too lackadaisical to stand up and be measured. Good stuff, anyway, whose major virtue is that it is extraordinarily lifelike. Which is to say, messy, disorganized, contrary, repetitious, tacky, funny, if you are in the mood for that sort of thing -- and in need of laundering...
...Hillela is more than just another woman who has turned sexual attractiveness to her own advantages. Gordimer writes that her heroine "has never been one to make mistakes when following her instincts," and this judgment is confirmed throughout the novel. Hillela's behavior, even at its loosest and least conventional, does not seem calculated but rather a natural response to the proper, perhaps even the moral, demands of shifting situations. Looking back on his time with her, a friend from the early days says, "She was innocent." Later, marked by personal tragedy and the rough- and-tumble life...
These days, though, tales of future shocks seem like distant fantasies. OPEC remains a cartel held together by the loosest of links. Three months ago the group agreed to cut production by 7%, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, and prices later jumped by about $4, to more than $19 per bbl. But OPEC's continued weakness soon surfaced. Last month certain members were reported to be cheating on the cartel's production accord, and prices fell below $15 per bbl. Even as Saudi Arabia worked last week to keep the production agreement intact, causing prices to rise about...
Pointing to the television fairness doctrine, which says TV news should deal with "controversial issues of public importance." Cohen claims current TV journalists take the loosest interpretation of that mandate...
...conservatives will vote in future showdowns is unknown. Their top priorities are a strong defense and a balanced budget. But they make no attempt to work out a unified position, and their organization is the loosest on Capitol Hill: the forum has no chairman, no staff, no offices, not even any set schedule for meeting. When a member wants a meeting, he notifies Charles Stenholm, a cotton farmer from Texas who has been designated "coordinator." At the meetings, members simply talk and break up without taking any nose counts...