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...time and terrain in Russell Banks' thunderous epic Cloudsplitter. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf; 448 pages; $26) follows Lidie, a sturdy young Illinois bride, to the dust-blown outpost of Lawrence, Kans., in the tumultuous year of 1855. Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown and his terrible sons, the focus of Banks' harsh panorama, are just out of sight in Smiley's account, raiding and murdering...
...what I've been predicting throughout my career," he says. For years, he contends, people have dismissed avian flu "as a problem of chickens--who cares?" He revels in his newfound credibility. "Finally," he says, laughing, "at the end of my career, the chickens have come home to roost...
...talked about leaving the podium. But Branegan says that for the Administration, the spin is simple: Just keep going. "The idea, for everyone from Clinton on down, is to hunker down and redouble their efforts." And hope that this scandal, like all the others, never quite comes home to roost...
...sequence, a New Year's party celebrating the arrival of 1980, climaxes when one tortured porn groupie executes his wandering wife before blowing his brains out at the stroke of midnight. During the 1980s, selfish gratification takes on a colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration. As each character faces the ramifications of their depraved life, the porn industry turns to kink and violence in order to keep up with the changing times. Dirk, drugged out and desperate, turns gay tricks in a parking...
...CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST...