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...works, Irving plays a game of cat and mouse in which he is a jaded feline devising kinky ways to devour his characters. He takes great pains to create elaborate family trees, but they are ultimately rotten at their roots. It's no wonder he's so popular; his books are just one big freak show, with bizarre high jinks and cheap shocks introduced regularly to titillate his audience...
Complicated, but charming nonetheless. And there have also been flashes of true American wit over the years, with Congressman John Randolph of Virginia comparing an adversary to "rotten mackerel by moonlight; he shines and stinks," or dealing with his public...
...says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt is not dirt or they lie to us about their dirt. I know these are the rottenest people on God's earth, and they know it too. But as long as they...
...came. Business was rotten. Old Elihu didn't care whether he shut down for a while or not. He tore up the agreements he had made with his men and began kicking them back into their prewar circumstances. Of course they yelled for help. They struck...
...been fired regularly throughout his tempestuous career, Oakland's sizzling start is vindication of his techniques and his new owners' faith. Irascible Charlie Finley sold the A's last year to the Haas family, proprietors of Levi Strauss & Co., for $12.7 million. It looked like a rotten investment. But the A's, who drew a paltry total of 306,763 for 81 home games in 1979, happily watched 149,873 fans pack Oakland-Alameda Coliseum for the first six dates of the 1981 season...