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...down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning...
...till now, the only fireworks have been provided by Crystal Beach residents, who have been squabbling over their local government since the city was incorporated in 1971. Texas Rangers were once called out to restore order at a tempestuous city-council meeting. Two campaigns to disincorporate Crystal Beach failed. But the rebellion gathered steam last year after the city imposed a $5 beach parking fee and two municipal officials were indicted for misconduct. Groused former Mayor Hank March: "We've been putting up with mismanagement and ineptitude for 16 years." As Crystal Beach braces for the tumult of its annual...
...into buses and trucks to barnstorm the country. This particular company is spending five months on the road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally, is a musical confection...
...Albania accomplished an astonishing record: almost perfect parliamentary elections. Every one of the country's 1,830,653 registered voters cast a ballot, and all candidates selected by the Albanian Labor Party won 100% of the votes counted. But alas, a single ballot was declared invalid by officials. Wait till next year...
...Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed to eat, gorged themselves till they burst. Having outlawed all emotion and distinction, the Khmer Rouge found that they had also abolished all expertise, so that the "whole society was working at maximum -- and brutally enforced -- inefficiency." And even after the murderers were routed, there was no release: the Cambodians who were still left found themselves...