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Sally: And the ladies' powder room. A lascivious red. Yum. Condom purchases low here, too. But you can check your lipstick in the mirror over the sinks and subtly inspect your butt for those unseemly panty lines in the vertical mirror behind you with just a discreet toss of the head. How convenient!Middle...
This is a powder keg of momentous proportions. In Quincy House, where the cheer and devotion of the dining hall staff already draw eager luncheoners from afar, and where the puny eating space barely accommodates the residents of this, the largest undergraduate house, we look upon your new restrictions as, frankly, almost a declaration of war. I am sure the inhabitants of Lowell share our peril...
...ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes of an addict's mind; or else it's a spy story, in which the secret agent is bug powder...
Bugsy could be the name of the film David Cronenberg has woven from remnants of Naked Lunch. Its main character, Bill Lee (Peter Weller), is an exterminator who sees roaches everywhere -- not least because his wife Joan (Judy Davis) has been stealing the bug powder he needs for his job; she cuts the stuff with baby laxative and injects it into her breast. "It's a Kafka high," she says. "You feel like a bug." In his daymares, Bill is visited by beetles -- big ugly things, chatting away through purulent orifices -- that send him on a spy mission into...
Bessie, the care giver, connects tenderly with her harsher sister's teenage sons, one a powder keg of anger who burned down his neighborhood, the other a bespectacled Milquetoast who perpetually retreats into a book. She also has a wonderful speech recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who drowned before her eyes when a partying crowd onshore mistook his desperate pleas for habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall...