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...characters whom he deals with here intensely, and the openness of even his plotted stories to all sorts of notions--political, religious and scientific--which are pertinent to the educated audience he addresses, these new stories are as far from those he wrote a half decade ago as Rabbit Redux is from Rabbit Run. What Museums and Women finally signals is Updike's absolute progression away from his rural Pennsylvanian root experiences, their '40s and '50s settings, and the themes of adolescence and young adulthood which went with them...
...exactly the materials for War and Peace, or even a Rabbit Redux. But Vonnegut is entertaining: he works with a writing line of aptly terse description prone to break into fragments of anecdote whenever a theme needs developing. And he cuts into the narrative with his own voice, full of pathos expressed in the right phrases. "So it goes," the Tralfamadorian "lament" for death repeated by Vonnegut whenever he's forced to report it, is at first a "would you believe twenty killings?" shtik--only to become a Shantih, Shantih of a different stripe and level...
...Cowboy Redux. Winchesters are shaped, packaged and sold 20 to a pack exactly like cigarettes. They contain shredded tobacco and have tan paper-like wrappers made from tobacco. Tipped with cellulose-acetate filters like cigarettes, their light smoke can be comfortably inhaled, and they are sold in some cigarette-vending machines and displayed among the cigarettes at some retail stores. The Internal Revenue Service, which classifies all tobacco products for tax purposes, initially declared that Winchesters were not little cigars. The IRS reversed itself later when Reynolds made some changes in the product's tobacco...
...Winds of War, Wouk (I last week) 2--Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Assassins/ Kazan (4) 4-The Exorcist, Blatty (5) 5-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 6-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (8) 7-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 8-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 9-The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Higgins 10-The Word, Wallace
FICTION 1 -The Winds of War, Wouk (1 last week) 2-Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 4-The Assassins, Kazan (5) 5-The Exorcist, Blatty (4) 6-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 7-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 8-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (9) 9-Our Gang, Roth (8) 10-The Peaceable Kingdom, de Hartog