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This small and distinctly peculiar novel was published in the original Spanish in 1988, just as its author began his long, ultimately losing campaign for the presidency of Peru. Now that it is available in English, In Praise of the Stepmother should raise again the question that readers have been asking for the past two years: Why would someone with the private talent and the exotic sensibilities of Mario Vargas Llosa want to enter public life...
Over the course of their journey they encounter peculiar artifacts (egg beaters, a 1972 photo clip of Richard Nixon) and individuals (a cannibal with an Alsace-Lorrainean accent, a beatnik troll) who lead them to the realization that they are not just travelling over land, but through time and into the future...
...other sports post as a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. But that is a dubious proposition, since there are already loud rumbles within the Olympic Committee that Steinbrenner will be pressured to resign. Deciphering Steinbrenner's motivations has never been easy, since there is always a peculiar disconnection between his words and his deeds. But last week he was uncharacteristically inaccessible; a press release, which might charitably be described as disinformation, made it seem as though baseball had given him a gold watch and a retirement party. "For some years now I have been preparing to turn over...
...South of the late 20th century, segregation by law has been destroyed, and segregation in fact is no more peculiar to Jackson, Miss., than it is to Jackson, Mich. On the other side of the coin, there is more school integration in the South than in any other section. Racism remains, but the nation now understands that race is the American dilemma...
...National Rifle Association might put it, guns don't kill prairie dogs, people do. Scores of people with a peculiar craving to mow down the critters in large numbers showed up for the first Top Dog World Championship Prairie Dog Shoot competition, conducted July 14 and 15 in Nucla, Colo. (pop. 1,000). When the smoke had finally cleared, 2,956 prairie dogs (which farmers and ranchers consider a nuisance) had been executed...