Word: shamed
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...this is a shame, because King is more intelligent and has a better conception of city politics and government than Ray Flynn. But he has not been able to convey this message to the majority of the city's electorate...
...SHAME by Salman Rushdie; Knopf; 319 pages; $13.95 "After Sufiya Zinobia recovered from the immunological catastrophe that followed the turkey massacre ..." Coming upon a sentence that opens like this can make readers of the novel in which it appears begin to wonder what is on the tube tonight. They might also find themselves talking back to the novelist...
Indian-born Author Salman Rushdie, 36, puts up. Those unfortunate gobblers are not the only fanciful creatures in Shame, his third novel. The book is crammed with the grotesque and improbable. Many pages are devoted to introducing the hero, Omar Khayyam Shakil, and the three sisters who all claim to be his mother. Then he grows fat and disappears from the scene for long stretches. "I am a peripheral man," he announces near the end. "Other persons have been the principal actors in my life story...
...fictional country exist, like myself, at a slight angle to reality." The personal reference needs an explanation, and Rushdie later offers one: "I am an emigrant from one country (India) and a newcomer in two (England, where I live, and Pakistan, to which my family moved against my will)." Shame is a looking-glass fable about a country that was actually made up, arbitrarily sundered from India in 1947, written by a native son who has never called the place his home...
EVERY WOMAN enjoys genuine appreciation. It's a shame so few men know how to show it. Any woman who has walked down a street, especially in a big city and especially during the summertime, knows the difference between appreciation and abuse. Occasionally (usually in our dreams) we walk past men who smile fondly at us. Most of the time we are subjected to a crossfire which makes running the gauntlet look like a stroll. Comments like "Mmmmmm, nice," and "Hi there, honey" from total strangers may seem harmless; but because of them a women who ventures out in public...