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...ecstatic reception. The room was respectful of her recital of Democratic programs in a sing-song voice, not unlike Gore's, but not enthralled. One of the top party operatives, having shown her face, sneaked out before the speech. In the back, the deeply devoted had to shush those who had drifted off into their own conversations. The topics included how good Hillary looked considering all she had been through (as if she were a widow at a funeral) and whether the Clintons, who vacationed on a ranch in Wyoming because a pollster told them to, would be happy forgoing...
...Coolio?" Each game has four rounds. At the end of round one, the person in fourth place becomes the "dunce," sits in a corner and has to wear an ugly orange and green floppy jester hat. For the final round, the top scorer is placed in the "Cylinder of Shush" (sort of like the "Cone of Silence" on "Get Smart") and competes against the clock, with 45 seconds to answer 10 questions from his/her "Savant Category" (pre-chosen by the player during the audition process). At the end of the week, the player with the highest cumulative score is crowned...
...almost made it to the "Cylinder of Shush" that day--but not quite. Finally, with game three my luck changed during the speed round. Fitzsimmons: "If X equals three, solve the following equations...
...anti-revolutionary. Asking to be called Luisa, the 66-year-old mother of an exile is glad President Bill Clinton cut off remittances, even if it means no more money from her son in California. "He pockets the money anyway," she says. Who? "Fidel. Who else?" Alarmed, her companions shush her, and she lowers her voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this damn government prosper anymore," she whispers. "They have everything -- generators, cars, gas, the food they want -- and we have nothing. They talk about Fatherland or Death, Socialism or Death. Bullshit. I'm not going...
What the novel must avoid is the opposite of the dehumanization of the victim of AIDS. The other characters in Diary of a Lost Boyare reduced almost to satire, in their names (the Deds, the magazine editor Mag, Bill's girlfriend Shush, for instance) and in their banality (Mag calls to tell Hecetor that her assistant Joseph has died from the disease, but that she doesn't see it as just "a lot of rotten luck," but "as a doorway into the New Age"). But if the cast surrounding Hector approaches satire, it is perhaps as his situation dictates. They...