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Leyner's book subjects nearly every element of pop culture to light-hearted scrutiny, yet includes moments of insight into our human condition "Thoughts While Listening to Mahler in the Afternoon" and "Bassinet Mattress Day" discuss with comical yet realistic clarity issues such as death and, less serious but hopefully more immediate, what to do with that spare time in the car while waiting for your companion to finish her shopping...
After climbing a stairwell highlighted by outlines of bodies, and stepping into a long hallway decorated like a Los Angeles freeway, guests passed through a bathroom turned into jail cell--complete with a bloody mattress, says Brandon C. Gregoire '95, one of the party's organizers...
...lost touch with her husband and three children in the war. Now she's recuperating, she says, from the cholera. "I want to go home. I don't understand why we can't settle things in a country as small as ours." Edithe lays her head on the mattress of her friend Claudette Ruhumuliza, 27, a teacher. "I think I'm going to die soon," Claudette says, staring at her husband Prosper. Once they had a house and farmland. He says, "If the foreigners would help us go home and protect us, we would be happy." Glancing at his wife...
...Dreams (Pantheon; 546 pages; $24), which records a long meander around California. Wistfully, lightly, the author recollects arriving in San Francisco as a 25-year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl...
...create some cashless utopias of his own by asking his guests to pay for things with beads as part of their tropical vacations. But in everyday life, consumers until now have largely chosen to hold on to their coin purses, dollar bills and checkbooks, reflecting an atavistic, under-the-mattress reluctance to part with their purchasing power...