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...center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where is the there?) Born as a city of immigrants, Tinseltown, the Rainbow City, Iowa-by-the-Sea -- the sobriquets are legion -- remains one: children in its public schools come from families that variously speak 93 languages. Some of them even know English...
...hilarious. As with Kim Il Sung, who was said to have nearly supernatural powers and be in several places at the same time, Kim Jong Il's life is swaddled in layers of official fable worthy of a demigod. His birth was foretold by a swallow. A double rainbow appeared over sacred Mount Paektu when he was born. The mythographers have not claimed that he was suckled by a she- wolf and tutored by centaurs, but their hyperbole in other matters is nearly that far a reach. Jong Il supposedly has mastered all knowledge, and his thoughts are studied...
Spiked! arrives with a cultural pedigree: cover art by Art (Maus) Spiegelman and liner notes by author-recluse Thomas (Gravity's Rainbow) Pynchon. "Yet there remains about Spike's work what is sometimes an almost uncomfortable complexity," proclaims Pynchon, later anointing Jones as "a conceptual artist with a head for business." One would like to drag semiology in here too, for the Slickers never saw a text they couldn't subvert. But Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action...
...chart depicting government projections of underestimated budget deficits during the 1980s flashed overhead, Perot quipped: "I think the theme song for the Office of Management and the Budget should be 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' 'cause that's where their projections come from...
...going to leave you a country where you can't climb every mountain, fjord every stream, follow every rainbow until you find your dream," he said, borrowing liberally form the musical, "The Sound of Music...