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...center of Genet's inverted ethic. It was a means of petty rebellion even after literary success brought him enough money for monogrammed shirts -- which required him to match his aliases to the JG stitched on them. "Society hostesses shivered with anticipation," White tells us, "hoping he'd nick something when he came to call." Repeatedly nabbed, Genet spent more than four years in French jails...
...needed a room. The India-born general manager of the Royal Motel in Long Beach, California, looked at his would-be guest, a bulky black man who admitted to being unemployed, and said, "O.K., but if you're not good I won't let you stay here." "But," Nick Bhakta recalls, "he was good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days -- the time it took to clear his application...
...EGYPTIAN JUKEBOX, by Nick Bantock (Viking; $18.95). A taste for archeology and an itch for puzzle solving will enhance enjoyment of this intriguing combination of art book and mystery story by the popular author of the Griffin & Sabine books. The illustrations are composed of curious knickknacks found in a museum cabinet built by a missing eccentric millionaire. The artifacts, reminiscent of Joseph Cornell's haunting boxes, are clues to the whereabouts of their owner. And what of his worried daughter, who has a hand in the text? Stories about the missing man's adventures also harbor clues. Have an interactive...
Harvard's nominees to the All-Ivy team were: seniors Amy Belisle, Meg Berte, Julie Caldwell, Jennifer Garcia, Joe Hiffa, Steve Kelts, and Jeff Zimmerman and juniors Meredith Fitzgerald, Mark Cote, and Nick DuBois...
...antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send f2 to Nick Saloman, Woronzow Records, 75 Melville Rd., Walthamstow, London...