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Catchy, sure, but do you really want to bring him home to meet the folks? Still, against all odds, on Odelay, Beck managed to pull from his grab bag of idiosyncracies something somehow coherent, edgy and adorable all at the same time. Maybe it was the lovable geeky cowboy thing, or all that talk of him capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into...
Sure, many of Barnicle's columns were moving, enlightening or wickedly on-target, even when we somehow suspected he was fudging the details. But when it came out that he had put words in other people's mouths, he lost all credibility. It would have been nice to see him admit his mistakes in the paper he served for so many years. But maybe he can't even admit it to himself...
...Somehow in the midst of uneasiness and sadness, the novel sparkles with the humor of the surreal (in one exchange, Lily asks Ronny "What did you do to yourself?" and is met with "Oh. I caught fire.") and with unusual imagery (Lily is called "every inch a Sea Monkey... Pale and alien and underwater"). But while the bleak humor is generated by the peculiarities of the characters, there is a definite authorial love for the seemingly unlovable characters, a love which transfers to the reader...
Only a handful of us at Harvard are internationally competitive athletes. Yet our school's greatest claim to fame is that we are all, in some way or another, very, very good at being young and exceptional. Having distinguished ourselves somehow by age 18, we have all become accustomed to hearing our elders say things like "Can you believe she did that at her age?" Unfortunately, it's the "at her age" qualifier that's particularly hard to drop. With all the child prodigies in the world, it's surprising we don't hear from more of them later...
Richard Lacayo gives voice to the gnawing uneasiness many Americans feel about Kenneth Starr's investigation-- that while the President's conduct was clearly wrong, Starr's investigation was somehow not right [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 5]. As Lacayo correctly points out, much more than Clinton's presidency is at stake here. Congress must act with discretion and care. MICHAEL J. MULLET Rockford, Mich...