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...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...
This one is tough to swallow. I don't know what else to say. All at once I am sad, happy, concerned and angry...
...wake up one day and decide to live according to reason. No, in order to live this life, one must, as Plato's sharpest student Aristotle said (more or less), practice, practice, practice. But as Bennett so wryly notes, this "is the medicine so many people find hard to swallow...
...more. In a parody that will appear in the normally rather sober Advertising Age trade magazine, NEWT GINGRICH, bearing a feather mustache, gives his advice on eating crow. "The key is start early. With just a few feathers a day," says the copy. "Then when the time comes to swallow the whole bird, you won't gag a bit." The American Dairy Association isn't a Comedy Central advertiser, but its sister organization, the California Milk Advisory Board, is. Let's hope it isn't a big account...
...drugs and get them into kids. In some cases they chop up the capsules and mix the medication with applesauce or baby formula. But mashed up protease inhibitors taste so bitter that most kids just spit them out. So doctors are teaching children as young as 2 how to swallow the intact capsules...