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Your Essay on book borrowing brought to mind a current problem of mine: I received as a gift John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich and later recommended it to the donor, who borrowed but has not returned...
...m.p.g. from its improved Wankel engine, and the GLC. That compact is known as the Familia in Japan and the 323 in other parts of the world. Ford markets a version of its own, called the Laser, in 44 Asian countries. While the car looks suspiciously like a Volkswagen Rabbit, there is one important difference: the GLC sells for about $5,475, while a Rabbit costs...
Mazda's front-wheel-drive compact, known in the U.S. as the GLC (for Great Little Car), has become the world's third bestselling model after the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit. Mazda's RX7, the only rotary engine vehicle that the company exports, is the second most popular foreign sports car in America...
Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
...really been interested in probing the soul of America, it would have been more revealing to explain how a character like Allie Fox managed to survive the ravages of an undisciplined society. To understand what's wrong with America. John Uplike's probably a better bet. His latest, Rabbit is Rich, stays within the society of inflation that Theroux can only deal with by escaping. It's a book about how real people live. For an intelligent, incisive opinion on the shape of people's minds in other lands, a friend of Theroux's--V.S. Naipaul--is far preferable. Theroux...