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This quiet, quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. After a brief account of Robles' life and career and a reference to his later problems with alcoholism and depression, the article concludes, "He is survived by his third wife, Lauren Hartke, the body artist...
...guest's stunted appearance reminds her of her onetime high school science teacher, and so she names him Mr. Tuttle. And her initial curiosity about his random utterances surges when she realizes that Mr. Tuttle sometimes uses, in a close approximation of her voice, words she had spoken to Rey and then, in his inflections, Rey's words back to her, including exchanges from their last breakfast together...
...addition, last year PBHA spent $100,000 of a bequest from the Margaret Rey Estate on the summer programs. This year, however, Hampton says the organization can only afford to spent $50,000 of the Estate's gift on summer programs...
...pedal steel guitar is the descendant of the lap steel, which came into vogue around 1915 with the Hawaiian music craze and gradually worked its way into the American mainstream via the music of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Alvino Rey and Santo & Johnny ("Sleepwalk"). American manufacturers like Rickenbacker and Gibson began making instruments to suit this new style of music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated...
Credit should be given where credit is due, and the Mets, much like the hitters they sent to bat each inning of the series, are due. Their no-name outfield now has the names of Timo Perez, Benny Agbayani and Jay Payton. Well-adjusted Mike Bordick picked up in Rey Ordonez' shortstop position, even after arriving in Flushing as a late-season carpetbagger...