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...conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...
...humorous touches, as when Ford creeps past baggage and broken glass from refrigerators filled with enough milk, orange juice and cases of Bud to quench the thirst of all Kazakhstan; and when, after fumbling through the pages of a cellular phone user's pamphlet, he finds himself dealing with a skeptical White House phone operator who responds, "Yeah. And I'm the First Lady." Equally amusing is a parachute scene in which a secretary who provides key assistance to Marshall descends, smiling, into the safety of...central Asia...
Once we removed the uppermost layer of dirt, we found other surprises. The boys' vices, we discovered, extended beyond mere slovenliness to include a seemingly unquenchable thirst for alcohol in any form. The kitchen, for example, was ill-equipped for preparing a typical meal--forks were in short supply, as were other utensils, with the exception of one disturbingly large meat cleaver, and we counted exactly four plates. But mugs and tumblers were tucked into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted...
...like today: low inflation, low interest rates, strong profits. Coca-Cola, to name one, trades at 36 times the earnings Wall Street expects it to enjoy in 1998. Coke is a great company. But for that kind of price its secret formula should cure a lot more than a thirst. Such lofty PEs are more troubling than other market flashpoints because they are based on earnings, which are the market's lifeblood...
DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...