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...realization, from the McMartin case and others like it, that trustworthy authority figures can sometimes be child molesters may have created a monster that ensnares innocent people. One day social workers talk about how to get children and parents to report incidents of sexual abuse; the next day Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue have a line of people waiting to tell their stories. Some parents, determined to damage each other in a divorce, are throwing abuse charges around. Those bent on destroying a reputation have a surefire weapon...
...thought about being a Clown and talkedabout being a Clown. And I thought about it somemore. And talked about it some more. And aftermuch thinking and talking I became very afraid.Not because of the huge monster that hides undermy bed and eats clowns, but because I was afraid Iwould never become a Clown again...
...Your caravan. No one in it, we are undecided whether or not to make it a shrine, but if the truth were known, we are all scared to go in it as one never knows what malignant monster may have hatched in some of your crap you left behind, so it still lies there unoccuied with the door flapping in the moonlight and the ghosts of bygone americans (Small A) either reading or copulating noisily as the case...
...long, capable of comic-alarming subterranean rapid transit (you just see this furrow moving across the desert at Road Runner speed). When they surface, they reveal trifurcated tongues, each extension ending in a funny-nasty suction cup. In other words, they are great special effects, informed by the mutant-monster tradition of '50s horror movies but satirizing that tradition in a delicate way -- neither condescending nor indulgent...
...Stuart family seemed an unlikely source for a monster like Charles to spring from. Charles and his siblings grew up in Revere, a blue-collar, predominantly white suburb north of Boston. Charles Sr., an easy, gregarious man, tended bar at a tavern called the Dublin and often served as toastmaster at Knights of Columbus banquets. He had two daughters by his first wife. Charles Jr. was the first of four sons of a second marriage. Always attractive and popular, Charles was never much of a student. He went to Immaculate Conception school, and then Northeastern Metropolitan Regional Vocational in nearby...