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...orphanage of central government General Tang En-po stains memory with its smell. It stank worse than anything else I have ever smelled. Even the escorting officer could not stand the odor and, holding his handkerchief to his nose, asked to be excused. Abandoned babies were inserted four to a crib. Those who could not fit were simply laid on the straw. They smelled of baby vomit and baby shit, and when they were dead, they were cleaned...
...fact that Hannah's characters and settings are chiefly Southern lends the book a flowery tang. "Beauty is fleeting," says a woman in one story. "What stays is your basic endurance of pettiness and ennui." Though Hannah readily exploits the southerner's license to orate, he is not especially interested in regional manners. His real concern is with the hollering, clawing passions that manners are supposed to civilize. Hannah likes to rend the social fabric and examine what's underneath. Two of his stories are apocalyptic, set during worldwide calamities that turn people savage. Three others take...
...successive nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...
...district judges previously named under predominantly political sponsorship. For example, Robert Vance, nominee for the Fifth Circuit, is the longtime Alabama Democratic Party chairman; Tennessee's Gilbert Merritt had contributed to Democratic Senator James Sasser's 1976 campaign (as had Merritt's two minor children); Thomas Tang of Arizona has close ties to Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini. Yet even Republicans acknowledge that the nominees have good credentials, and the four trial court judges being moved up-Damon Keith of Michigan, Leon Higgenbotham of Pennsylvania, Hugh Henry Bownes of New Hampshire and Alvin Rubin of Louisiana...
...given the Concorde the go-ahead to land in New York City, we could put a man on the moon, so why the phosphoric acid couldn't the University's team of Bocuse-trained, Michelin-three-star chefs get the green light on Walnut/Bac-o/Cyclamate burgers? They could put Tang and Xylitol in orbit, but why weren't they allowed to put them in the Union...