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...want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
...Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished from Thomas, Wolfe" and "Tom Wolfe...
...necessary to understand that he has a way with the language that is highly amusing in itself. There are also, however, hints of what is to come, but it's not in Guido's nature to let these threats impede his lifestyle. When Guido's family horse is spray-painted green and covered with anti-Semitic slogans, he uses it to carry Dora away from her Fascist husband-to-be. In another scene, Guido pretends to be chief inspector at a school so he can turn an intended lecture on the superiority of the Aryan race into a discussion...
James Huth (age 8, brother of Phoebe, son of Professor Huth) had more complicated plans: "I'm gonna be a Velociraptor with wings, from the ad on TV with the mutant dinosaurs. Me and my family made it--it's actually some green clothes with spray paint and cardboard...
...from January 1st to December 31st, and are issued by most city clerks, Division offices and outlets, although one doesn't often witness Christy's doling out trout stamps with lottery tickets. And, due to age limits, the pint-sized Harvard Square drummer won't have a chance to spray bullets at local wildlife as permits are only distributed to those of 15 years and over...