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...mythic imagery, and the like -- are, as any art student knows by now, conventional signs that can be (and usually are) manipulated as lightly and coldly as Coke bottles in a Warhol. In this republic, the "expressive" comes down to another form of pop art, retooled for an audience strung out on fictions of personal authenticity...
...defense attempted to depict Isles to the press as a spurned, vindictive woman, not even faithful to the unfaithful Claus. Puccio, admitting that his client had strung Isles along, said that Von Bulow may have been a "cad," but he was not a murderer. Andrea Reynolds, Von Bulow's thrice-married Hungarian-born companion, told the New York Post: "Alexandra is a very pretty girl, but she is not what I call marriage material." Why not, pray tell? "She doesn't seem to be very monogamous, my dear," sniped Reynolds...
...record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like one of those midnight Poe love poems, filled with grace notes that sound like cries for help ("I live in another world where life and death are memorized./ Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes"), and images of fleeting beauty that turn into signs of prophecy ("Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel...
...convoluted plot, however, is strung together with more than a few loose ends. The cult whorehouse in New Hampshire may be an unnecessary toner of John Irving, but it does allow for amusing satire of back-to-nature religious cults. Theoron is bewildered by the Adamite cult-in which, unsurprisingly, everyone is named Adam-which professes to practice coitus reservatus (carefully distinguished from interruptus), but then discovers it to be a cover for a bordello and much more...
...surprise to anyone that Bruce hasn't lost a step in the dialogue department. And the way he spins yarns is enough to make even nonreaders feel right at home. In fact, if the truth be told, after a couple of pages of "guys" and "fellas," and cliches strung together so you know he's kind of kidding them, but not in a serious way, most readers may even start thinking and talking like Bruce...