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...goes The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus, a sly sketch from Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company show, and the ringing central gong of his amiable new collection, The Book of Guys (Viking; 340 pages; $22). But there's more, and worse. "Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls," Keillor writes. "Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet, a bad hormone experience. Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees...
Hard times for guy dieties, even those who are elected. George Bush, in another sketch, is fishing from the presidential yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name...
...three California men. The day after the 45,000 residents of Petaluma awoke to news of Polly's kidnapping, Gary French, an unemployed computer-systems salesman, rushed to the police station to offer his help. As he watched a fax machine slowly churn out poor reproductions of a suspect sketch, he thought, "We can do this all electronically." When Bill Rhodes, who owns a local printshop, and Larry Magid, a syndicated computer columnist, had the same idea, the police put them in touch...
Three days later, when the FBI completed a more detailed composite sketch of the suspect, French had two graphics experts scan the drawing and a photo of Polly into a computer. By then, Magid had contacted several computer networks, among them Internet, which has a worldwide clientele of 20 million users. Those services quickly transmitted the images to 250 computer bulletin boards. "This is like a good virus: it proliferated," says Magid...
That is, until Norman got a gander at an artist's sketch of the proposed store. "It made me sick," he says. "There was this three-level building, this antiseptic, big white monster. It was like letting a 300-lb. gorilla into your living room." But town leaders were already wooed and won, giving Wal- Mart the desired zoning change for the site from industrial to commercial. Norman and like-minded neighbors mobilized quickly, forming the "We're Against the Wal Committee" and bombarding the area with bumper stickers, lawn signs and newspaper ads showing people the store...