Word: review
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come at a very good time, almost too nice a time," said Saunders, noting that NASA's fiscal year 1997 budget is coming up for review soon...
...wants to portray his Dr. Neruda as hero, fool or, when he investigates the circumstances leading to Gene's fiasco, charlatan. With first-person narration, it is left to the reader to make that judgment. But what to make of a man who tells his lover, "Diane, if you review what you just said carefully, I really believe you'll see a contradiction." This is a man to track down evil...
...sister-in-law Pat, who doesn't really listen because she's too busy freaking out that her 13-year-old daughter Zivia has run away from home. Ed, Pat's redneck husband, is still mad at Ian, his brother, because Ian gave Ed's new play a bad review and caused an actor to commit suicide. Zivia, however, has become a heroin addict and enjoys dancing wildly to "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. C.C. calls her old friend Porter, who helped her in drug rehab last year, to help Zivia. Ian comes prancing...
...humanity to Ian (well, a little bit) and fury to Pat. Add all this to Leeore Schnairsohn's slick-radio-announcer-turned-Jimmy-Swaggart version of Porter and his born-again bride Zivia, and you've got an ending too deliciously and devilishly clever to spoil in a mere review. The true meaning of the title is revealed around this point: it's not just that Zivia is sucking the life out of Pat and Porter out of Zivia in turn--every single member of the family is living off the blood of every single other member...
There are the career books: Women Lawyers, by Mona Harrington, and the Princeton Review's Guide to Careers. It has always comforted me to read other people's advice, even when (as in the guide), it entails filling out quizzes and saying that my work style and interests are "blue" and "green" (I don't quite understand it either). At least then I can try to convince myself that I'm not completely directionless in life...