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...redeeming qualities to married life, at least as Cusk portrays it in her novel. The children are, if not an additional curse, no compensation. There are no light scenes in which to draw breath and recover from the blows that Cusk delivers. Even the passages describing the town are clouded by a grey fog and rain that reminds readers of the wretchedness of home and suburbia. “Arlington Park” is a book without hope. Not only do Cusk’s characters suffer, but they make no efforts to change or improve their situations. Cusk offers...
...Yoko Ono and Michael Jackson could charge licensing fees on The Beatles’ sound, they’d make a fortune off Field Music’s folky and relatively empty second release, “Tones of Town...
...Tones of Town,” the title track, underscores the album’s descent, revolving around two guitar notes and alternating rhythms. This song also exaggerates the album’s jerkiness, as the stop-and-go movement doesn’t allow it to get off its own feet...
Beat poet William Burroughs perhaps put it best when describing his brief time at Harvard: “I hated the university and I hated the town it was in. Everything about the place was dead. The university was a fake English setup taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools. I was lonely. I knew no one and strangers were regarded with distaste by the closed corporation of the desirables...
...Compared to Russia and Bulgaria, Gaucho says the Czech Republic is a breeze. His troubles have shrunk to figuring out where to go fishing, his favorite pastime. In Prague, he is tilting at bureaucratic windmills in order to angle a fishing permit. He used to fish in the Czech town of Olomouc, where he played with another team. But in all the time he spent at the local river there, he managed to catch only "one trout and a karpyonka [Russian for carp]." He is mystified about the kind of bait Eastern European fish prefer. "I don't know what...