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...first novel, V. (1963), with its fusion of paranoia and surrealism, provided one of the most impressive literary debuts of the decade. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), shorter and more straightforward than its predecessor, won more converts to the growing Pynchon cult. And the encyclopedic Gravity's Rainbow (1973) stunned both critics and readers as the most ambitious American novel since Moby Dick...
Jackson is no longer a positive force in the nomination race. He argues that liberal whites do not support him for racial reasons, but his charges ring of hypocrisy and petty opportunism. He calls for a "Rainbow Coalition," while sharing campaign platforms with a man who threatened death to a Black "Uncle Tom" reporter...
Among New York's other minorities, Jackson ran only well enough to make his Rainbow Coalition a bit less monochromatic. He won less than a quarter of the Hispanic vote, about 10% of the votes of Asian Americans and a mere 6% to 7% of white ballots. Nonetheless, the tide of black votes pushed his statewide total to 26%, his best primary showing to date...
...Some of us from the South felt as though we didn't need his [Jackson's] candidacy, and really didn't want it. We've been building multi-racial politics: we've already got rainbow coalitions," Young said...
...first impression, in a roomful of them, is of wandering in an aquarium. Coral is everywhere: fans, rigid laces, spreading antlers, all speckled and inscribed with rainbow color. Growths push upward from the floor and terminate in mad displays of hair, Medusa-like tentacles and other scribbles. Though some sculptures seem to belong to the sea bottom, there are others that suggest the land-tropical nature, in its fleshy leafings and embowerings. The plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself...