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Anyone who picks up Isaac Bashevis Singer's latest novel, Scum, may be tempted to view the book as a glorified yet deliciously decadent study break. Like any ideal beach reading, Scum is short (217 pages) and sprinkled with a generous share of immorality, violence and weird...
...this time is the coroner's verdict truly beyond dispute? Up to now, yuppies have proved harder to kill than Freddy Krueger. One can imagine the horror movie Nightmare at the Brie Counter, Part 12: Die Again, Yuppie Scum...
...people of Mexico City call it nata, or scum. It is the sickly brown cloud that stubbornly hangs over the megalopolis, home to 23 million people. Composed primarily of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the smog has made the winter of 1991 the most toxic in Mexico City history, triggering a 16% to 20% jump in the incidence of respiratory infections, nosebleeds and emphysema. Since September, the city has enjoyed only six days in which noxious gases did not exceed danger levels. "The atmosphere has no time to recuperate," says Homero Aridjis, president of the Group...
...SCUM by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 218 pages; $19.95). The title sounds right for a new Elmore Leonard detective novel, but Singer has extracted it from a passage in his own short story The Death of Methuselah: "Flesh and corruption were the same from the very beginning, and always will remain the scum of creation, the very opposite of God's wisdom, mercy and splendor...
...occasion of its 60th anniversary, the Hollywood Reporter solicited testimonials or comparable chitchat from some of Tinseltown's leading lights. Guess who contributed the following: "This town is a back-stabbing, scum- sucking, small-minded town, but thanks for the money...