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Our Gang: (Starring Tricky and His Friends) is a pleasantly ad hominem attack on the President and his Administration that finds itself just about midway between college humor parody and morally outraged satire. In terms of Roth's previous work, it most closely resembles "On the Air" (New American Review...
No matter, though, for to recount its plot is only to suggest the text that provides the scaffolding from which Our Gang goes on to mount an angry attack on the corruption that language must suffer in American politics. The book's events are told through press conferences. White House...
The contest winner was bland enough: Freedom's Futile Flight. A few of the other, somewhat more imaginative entries: Red Airing (second prize), Ping Pong Express, Tricky Dickie's Chicken Ship, Neville Chamberlain Express, Yellow Bird, Judas Jet, Air Farce One, Asian Flew, DingALing Dickie's Rickety...
As Ginger hovered indecisively, Stormfury's scientific director, a soft-spoken meteorologist named R. Cecil Gentry, recommended an attack. Taking off from fields along the East Coast, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 16 planes headed straight into the thick of the storm, the longest-lived hurricane on record. While instrument...
Sir: Contrary to your implication, it wasn't Tricky Thieu or Big Minh [Aug. 30] but Henry Kissinger who splattered Vietnamese election egg over the face of America.