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...Dior). Most of her songs are simple story songs, like the one about the girl who finds a kitten, puts it in her bodice, and attracts a good deal of male attention. But she also goes in for old rousers like Alouette and Au près de Ma Blonde. As she sings, her hands flicker gaily through the air, over her body, across her face, like the hands of a village girl telling a story at the well. She dislikes sadness and expresses the feeling in broad caricatures of moaning pop singers. Hers seems to be the Montmartre...
...ma very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...
...with you in a just a minute, sir" the girl says. She looks haggard. "That will be eight-five cents, ma'am." "No, these are not tropical gold fish." "Just a minute sir, I believe you only gave me a quarter." "No, South Station is down the sheet...
...Ma began to work her acres with joy, only to find that her land was literally a washout. Every summer, just before harvest time, the ocean burst over the whole farm and destroyed the crops. The first time Ma saw it happen, a little of her reason was carried away too. Against all advice, she borrowed to the limit of her credit and built a sea wall to keep the ocean out. But in one season, the crabs ate through the mangrove pilings, and one night the sea carried everything away. Soon after, Ma began to throw fits...
...rest of the book is a close-up of a paranoiac in a jungle clearing, screaming revenge on her whole life, while the tropics close in like an ant horde and nibble her to death with minor misfortunes. Her children struggle to break free of the inner jungle of Ma's spirit, only to find themselves in the outer jungle of a degenerate colonial society...