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...furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page 61, the mother takes over, and suddenly the book takes flight...
Smerick provides an example of how the process can work: in one rape-murder, the victim was a 22-year-old, blue-eyed blond secretary who lived in a racially mixed middle-class community. She was happily married, did not smoke or drink, and had a pleasant, unassertive personality. She was found tied to her bed's headboard with the cord cut from a water mattress's heater. A washcloth was stuffed in her mouth, and she was blindfolded with her own sweatshirt. Her blouse was ripped open, and she was nude from the waist down. She had been raped...
...digit of land that protrudes south from the Mexican border. To the east is the barrier reef, which runs parallel to the coast, less than a mile offshore. To the west are mangroves and shallow flats, and then the low featureless Mosquito Coast. San Pedro, in between, is a pleasant town of ramshackle wooden buildings on stilts or cinder blocks, with a few new condos...
...Holy Names Academy she was gregarious and peppy; Sister Bernadine Casey remembers a "pleasant, lovely and active student" who had a "gift for writing." Kitty made the cheerleading squad and was elected "Friendliest Girl" for four years running. She was chosen the school's "Lilac Princess," and rode a float in the annual Lilac Festival parade...
REAGAN'S CONVERSION was a pleasant surprise for those who wish to limit the availability of guns. For hardcore NRA members, it was nothing less than a betrayal. One of the latter suffered a disappointment of Biblical proportions, quoting to The New York Times the 146th Psalm on the unreliability of "princes." Another expressed his sense of abandonment thusly: "He's just another politician after all...there was a feelingthat he was a cut above the average politician...