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...story of the 1970s told as a painful national adolescence. Soul begets funk begets rap. Cigarettes lead to weed, which gives way to cocaine, which leads to crack. As they get older, Mingus grows harder and quieter, Dylan nerdier but more confident. Yet a slender but tough strand still connects the boys, and they fight against all the usual suspects--racism, violence, their parents' failing marriages--to keep it. In the novel's second half, really an extended epilogue, Lethem follows his principals into lives rendered bitter and crooked by the unresolved anger of their Brooklyn beginnings...
...Which strand of gossip is true? The townspeople want to know - or do they? As long as the matter is in doubt, they can keep nattering and give their shallow lives the semblance of drama. They want to believe the husband, because he speaks with such fiery protectiveness. They want to believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic...
...sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts to distinguish art that stands the test of time from socialist kitsch. That meant excluding some well-known work from the period, such as Walter Womacka's idyllic couple in Junges Paar am Strand (Young Couple at the Beach), a Norman Rockwell-like painting that could once be found in many East German homes. Some critics complain that such exclusions constitute a cleansing of East German art, and play down the intellectual constraints under which artists had to work. But März says he simply dismissed paintings...
POLLY STEVENSON: A SECOND DAUGHTER When Franklin returns to Britain in 1757 as a political agent of the American colonies, he moves into a four-story town house near London's busy Strand. Its owner: a solicitous widow named Margaret Stevenson, with whom he may have had an affair during his 15 years under her roof. But Franklin's real interest is her brainy daughter Mary, who went by the nickname Polly. Only 18 years old when she first enters his life, she shows such an eagerness to learn that it stirs all his strong mentoring instincts...
...little work got done on the book that, when it still wasn’t done by Labor Day, their friends had to strand them at a remote hotel away from the dog tracks, where the only entertainment was the Jerry Lewis telethon...