Word: straying
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...looking for the stray shampoo bottle," she said. "People making a good-faith effort don't have to worry...
...bath water. Two ideas worked in the tale of a foppish, philandering publisher: narrating his decline in flashback, from the vantage of a man afflicted and now somewhat healed, which earned instant sympathy; and letting his worldly fall lead to a moral rise. Both have been muted, and only stray witticisms linger...
Much of folklore and myth is embedded in oddments of visual memory (stereotypes, propagandas, stray entertainments) and in a few national epics like the story of the Kennedys, with its bright, shining moments and its darker subplots and disgraces. The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave...
...Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable. It's Janowitz's hyper-real prose servicing a cartoon vision that still marks her as a talent in search of an adequate subject...
While the runners fight through forty-thousand yards, most of the spectators do not stray more than ten yards from their car. There is a crowd at each parking lot along the way, at gas stations, barrooms, train stations. Even when there is a much better vantage point a short walk down the street, most families set up camp right next to the four-door. This is partly because people bring with them so much stuff to watch the race. They have the lawn chairs, the Coleman cooler, the barbeque grill, the portable television, the radio, and most troublesome...