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...Bolaño's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frère? You've been a country for 200 years. We've got 30 centuries of blood in our soil...
...before: a comedy with four protagonists all sharing the same body. The title character (Toni Collette) is a Kansas woman with two kids and three alternative personalities, or "alters": T, a trash-mouthed 16-year-old; Buck, a gun-loving redneck (and a dude); and Alice, a '50s-style prim housewife. Which makes for complications, as when hubby Max (John Corbett) must spurn T's advances because "Tara wouldn't like...
...instruction from Jeffs, they found his portrait hanging everywhere. When child protective services caseworkers looked at the Books of Mormon clasped in the hands of FLDS children they found his photograph pasted inside. At his September, 2007 trial in St. George, Utah, young women dressed in the FLDS prim, prarie-style fashions testified, while casting coy smiles Jeffs' way, that they listened to Uncle Warren's teachings on their I-pods...
...racial pitch was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography about how much he loved what were called "nigger shows" in his youth--these were minstrel shows, mostly with white men performing in blackface--and his delight in getting his prim mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent assaults on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not. The shows were simply a form of entertainment popular all over the country in the 19th century...
...suddenly stopped. One twentysomething white juror put a hand across one of his ears. One middle-aged black woman lowered her head, obviously disgusted. Kelly, meanwhile, leaned back in his chair, at some points hardly able to watch. In the seventh row, a group of not-so-prim young women sat with their hands stuffed into puffy jackets. One of the women sucked her teeth as the female in the video screamed, "Daddy...