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...this sets up a championship match of passive-aggressiveness between Lan and Blondie, mainland Chinese versus suburban American mother, with a slightly bemused, slightly excited Carnegie in the middle. With his dry engineer's wit?he compares his "va-va-vavoomy" wife to an Aeroflot plane and means it as a compliment?Carnegie is the closest thing this shifting novel has to a protagonist. (Jen divides the narration among her five characters, each offering rejoinders in separate paragraphs. It's a clever effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still...
...What has changed, says Bampi, is the way the drug moves around the streets. The footpath used to be the marketplace, but since police in Footscray and other known suburban hotspots began cracking down with more patrols, undercover surveillance and arrests, dealing has moved to darker corners. There, says Tregear, it's harder for police, health professionals and drug workers to find addicts. "You used to almost get killed in the rush of people selling out there," he says. Bampi's friends now ring contacts to organize deals, arranging to buy in cars, parks or busy shops. "It might take...
...there anything quite so stupid and time-wasting as the 1980s metal detector - the all but obsolete device that had gold diggers scouring beaches and suburban dumps for treasure? You can find yourself asking such questions with the work of Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow. And in the case of Diagonal Choir, 2000, his full-scale replica of a metal detector, made from PVC and epoxy and sprayed a ghostly white, you could ask: has anything as purposeful and beautifully crafted been shown in a gallery recently? Swallow, 29, is fascinated by the objects contemporary culture spits out. So when...
...feel that one of the main reasons for traffic disorder is the lack of proper public transport in Bangalore. It is something like the difference between New York City (with its effective mass-transit system) and Los Angeles. I remember waiting for a long time for buses in suburban California. Lack of public transport increases the number of vehicles on the roads, and that in turn reduces the amount of public transport. It is a vicious circle. Bangalore traffic is so bad that a chicken dare not cross the road. Palahalli R. Vishwanath Bangalore, India...
...Love was universally skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor at Columbia?to look after their son Zohran and, it seemed, to withdraw from directing into the life of a suburban housewife...