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This drumming ancestral cadence, after building slowly in Ricci's two earlier, related novels (including the prize-winning The Book of Saints), comes to a mist-wreathed climax in Where She Has Gone (Picador USA; 325 pages; $25). Here the sins of the Old World seep across the New as blood across a sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock...
...dreamt. Her awareness of the arbitrary nature of meaning seems more the state of mind of a language philosopher or an applied linguist (i.e. of a post-deconstruction academic) rather than a young adolescent. The issues that haunt Pella are the stuff of very recent debate and need to seep through a whole super-structure for a teenager to unknowingly apply them in her everyday life-even if she is "mature for her age," as other characters describe her. Pella might thereby embody a prophetic vision on Lethem's part: a future generation entirely immersed in the indeterminacy of meaning...
...accident caused a valve on the truck to open and gasoline began to seep...
...Meanwhile, one gift that just keeps on giving ? media attention ? has started to seep through the walls of the humble McCaughey abode. Two-year-old Mikayla, the septuplets' elder sister, "shrieked with joy" when she saw her grandmother reading a pile of magazines with her parents' faces on the cover. Next question: What did Newsweek do to mommy's teeth...
Call it trickle-down politics. No one realized in 1984 that the Reagan Revolution would eventually seep down and destroy liberalism in its safest sanctuaries. But the Reagan deficits, and the critique of government spending they bolstered, led to a steep decline in federal aid to urban areas, from $64 per city resident in 1980 to $29 in 1993. The inability to spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago. To survive, mayors have had to either find new sources of money...