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...Bedroom Wall is a collage of preserved sensations: the "bleached, bleak infinity" of mid-America, where afternoon light fades "as though tilting over in the air toward the sun, which then draws it forward and out"; a crystalline day of fishing on a Minnesota lake; brave old houses that shudder at North Dakota blizzards but withstand them. As fondly as an oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There...
...figures that made the bankers shudder made default-once considered unthinkable-look more and more possible. Last week the city drew out the last $51 million remaining from the nearly $2 billion raised during July and August by Big Mac. Designed only two months ago to save the city, Big Mac had let it be known that it could not raise the additional $1 billion with which the city had hoped to get through September. On Sept. 12, the city will have to meet a $104 million payroll. Other expenses during the first two weeks of September come...
Voyeuristic Shudder. Bad times became a way of life. The Muslim Ottoman Empire reduced Armenians to second-class citizens; then, as Asia Minor lurched toward "modernity," Turkey began its series of oppressions. They ended with lethal, unprovoked sweeps across the hills, torturing and killing no one knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those...
There was something about these atrocities, confesses Arlen, "that bothered me where I had not been bothered before; something more complicated than moral nausea, more troubling than a voyeuristic shudder." To locate that "something," he flew to Soviet Armenia to walk the hallowed ground and converse with remnants of a country that was no longer a nation. The place was a reconciliation of opposites. Mount Ararat, where Noah had brought his ark to rest, hid the radar stations of NATO. The literate Armenians liked "Jerome Salinger" and refused to talk of Solzhenitsyn. They were grateful for a land free...
...shudder of agreement rippled down the caucus from Alabama to Wyoming. "Foreign Policy is vital to out survival and women must intrude on those decisions. That is our failure-that we do not have women senators to address us or women judges whose opinions we can read." Farenthold swooped down in a final damnation. "And we have no presidential candidate...