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Dorothy Gallagher has written a piercingly funny book, and there's not a joke in it. In the first chapter of How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories (Random House; 187 pages; $22.95), she drags us straight into the sick room from hell. She is looking after Bella and Izzy, her failing Russian-Jewish parents. She muddles through with such wryness and tenderness and, finally, wisdom that it will make you ache for another chance to tend your own parents...
...concerned with commercial prettiness, Frusciante immerses himself completely, and the result is some of the most emotional and expressive rock singing in recent memory (witness the alternation between howl and wavering falsetto on "In Rime"). He's helped by his lyrics, which are evocative and thankfully never too random. Largely despondent, lines like "Oh please take us / We're wrong / We live now to relive on and on" repeatedly hint at his past...
...housing process did accept preferences up until five years ago, when the system became completely random. The Housing Office stopped including preferences in the process because of the homogeneity that developed within each House, separating students of different activities, interests or races from one another...
...place where students eat, sleep, work and socialize is too important and too prominent in students' lives to be random...
...eludes me how I'm able to make things come alive," Furst says, then launches into an excited tour of the "astonishingly eccentric" range of research, random and planned, that brings such authenticity to his crepuscular world: the vanity bio of a 1920s Lithuanian, the essays of French photographer Brassai, old Paris Baedekers, and so on. He constantly makes notes of telling details: the cabaret performer with a red light bulb at his crotch that Furst once spotted in a book by Cyrus Sulzberger turns up in Kingdom...