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...easy to see why. Standing next to a hot, vibrating, metalworking machine eight hours a day is demanding and physically taxing, but it is also boring and often dangerous. Blue-collar workers are seldom depicted as heroic in popular American culture; indeed, like the television characters Archie Bunker and Laverne and Shirley, they are frequently ridiculed...
Thanks to drug-generated income, buyers in southern Florida frequently shell out cash for expensive yachts or condominiums. Seldom is a question asked or an eyelid batted in such cases. As Miami Herald Editor Jim Hampton observes, "What should a real estate dealer do when a man in his late 20s or 30s with no visible source of income plunks down $250,000 cash for a house or condo...
Such passages give the novel an imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction. Seldom are such eerie, dreamed-up landscapes made so accessible. Thanks to the Bomb, all people are now entitled to their very own apocalyptic visions, whether they want them or not. Russell Hoban's nightmare is one that deserves to be passed along -ByPaulGray
Virtually all got big breaks and publicity on popular TV shows, and nearly all ran out of material a year or so later. Since they're seldom funny any more, they settle for merely acting strange...
...takes and write a simple, earthy "Once upon a time ..." When an interviewer inquired about the intention of If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino answered: "I would like people to feel that beyond the written word is the multiplicity and unforeseeable aspect of life." But seldom has the case against literature been argued more literarily, with such dazzling artifice and writer's pure device...