Word: staines
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...could blame him? Roth has already won every major book award, and literary-conspiracy theorists could point out that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because...
Short of homicide, how far will a man go to escape his background and reinvent himself as an unaffiliated member of the human race? If you are Coleman Silk, the gifted self-liberator in Philip Roth's new novel, The Human Stain (Houghton Mifflin; 368 pages; $26), you first tell your fiance that your widowed mother is dead when she is not. Then you tell your mother that she will never be allowed to see her future grandchildren...
...York match-up never ceased to be special. Memorable moments such as Charles Smith's four layup misses at the end of Game 5 of the 1993 Conference Finals or Patrick Ewing finally rejoicing after beating the Bulls in the seventh game of their 1994 series left an indelible stain on the sports rivalry...
...written two books about Edwards and says his act began to go stale in the '80s. The biggest blow to Edwards might actually have come before the trial even began, when it was moved from New Orleans, where it rains almost every afternoon to wash away the stain of sin, to Baton Rouge, which is less inclined to let the bon temps rouler. Even if Edwards walks, he'll have little time to throw away much cash. He and the state insurance commissioner are defendants in another corruption case that waits on deck. Can the Cajun fox dodge two bullets...
...Prosecution b) The Human Stain c) "A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow" d) Scam Dogs and Mo-Mo Mamas e) Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging f) Never Nosh a Matzo Ball g) The Soup Has Many Eyes...