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...Bermeo brought a decisively hip style of voting to last week's remarkable election in Mexico. As a dour procession of villagers strode to the polls in San Andres Calpan, southeast of Mexico City, Bermeo, 21, rode up on a neon-colored bicycle. Wearing a fringed vest and oversize rainbow-colored sunglasses, he swaggered into a booth to mark the first ballot of his life--and step into the vanguard of a democratic revolution. No way, he said, would he vote for the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico virtually unchallenged since 1929. "Every week I have...
...memorial in Washington [ESSAY, April 21], but he failed to familiarize himself with the site-selection and design-selection process. The traffic circle he suggested at the foot of the Arlington National Cemetery suggested by him was considered and rejected. The portion of the Washington Mall that includes the Rainbow Pool, the agreed-upon site for the memorial, needs a structure to enhance it. The four panels that reviewed design submissions selected, independently and unanimously, Friedrich St. Florian's design as the most appropriate for the site and for the significance of World War II. FRED F. WOERNER General, U.S.A...
Ever since the appearance of Thomas Pynchon's epic, mind-bending Gravity's Rainbow (1973), rumors have circulated among the faithful that the elusive author was working on two new projects: a novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...
...else can kid around as brilliantly as Pynchon. Mason & Dixon bears some resemblances to Gravity's Rainbow. Both books are huge (the first edition of Gravity's Rainbow ran 760 pages). Both have truncated double dactyls (Duh-duh-duh Duh-duh) as titles. Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of songs or poems...
...hands are extraordinarily sensitive and turn the colors of the rainbow according to the temperature of my surroundings. If it is not particularly cold, my hands are red. As the mercury plunges, my hands pass through stages of blue, purple, and black. The pain that accompanies the chameleon effect is irksome, which is why I prefer having other people scoop my ice cream to serving myself...