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...Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
...joins the great black migration to Los Angeles, fights in World War II and struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging respect for African Americans." As in Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. "In his renderings of a black preacher?s rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison...
...party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through and maybe even used to prop open a door. In short, a visual delight...
...began a couple of years ago, when four teams left the Southwest Conference to merge with the Big Eight to form the Big Twelve (or Dirty Dozen, as those left behind called it). The two schools first clashed when Texas led a successful campaign to outlaw Prop 48 athletes which Nebraska opposed...
...unveiled on celluloid last year in the James Bond flick Goldeneye. It's the first time a prop may have been as fetching as the star. BMW is adding a $35,900 six-cylinder model to give some American-style muscle to the pretty four-cylinder job now available...