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...find Amis undertaking such a seemingly conventional plot, it is also amusing, because it affords the British author an opportunity to play off quintessentially American myths about cops and robbers and have a little fun with American English while he's at it. Amis satisfyingly uses "badge" as a verb, as in, "I badged my way through the tunnel of uniforms around the front door," and he offers this memorable description of Hoolihan's work among the dead: "I've seen them all," she says. "Jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters...I have seen bodies left dead...
...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...
...know, I speak Spanish all day," he says. "I have to think in Spanish from the time I get up in the morning until I go home at night. School Spanish helps you with verb tenses, but field Spanish is an entirely different thing...
...sequel released last month, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters. He is part of a publishing mini-boom. Jewish Lights, a small house whose star is mystically oriented Reform rabbi and NPR commentator Lawrence Kushner, expects to sell 200,000 books this year. God Is a Verb, a Kabbalistic primer by Rabbi David Cooper, recently tore through three printings in two weeks. Says a publishing spokesman: "Every Jewish book that comes through, whether we buy it or not, people want to append mysticism to it. 'How do we get the Kabbalah audience?' It's kind of becoming...
...Dining hall meals would be patterned after Elvis' favorites in his last years at Graceland, including Fried chicken, Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fried pies and Fried frying oil. And, of course, if country music had stayed on in the Northeast, "Yale" would still just be a verb ("I tole Domna Sue to hurry up with them fried pertaters, but 'course she didn't, so I had to yale...