Word: whimseys
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...this does not sound like a recipe for trendy froth, then nothing can. But Author Ted Mooney adds some marijuana and gin, stirs and comes up with a substantial and moving first novel. For one thing, circumstantial whimsey is balanced against the pathos of characters trying to take their increasingly weird lives seriously. The air around them is "full of microwaves and jets." An apartment-house elevator contains a TV set; during a short ride up, the operator switches dials and treats his passengers to snippets of six old movies. Strange rituals proliferate; at airports, Mooney's people watch...
...squad is working on its male-female ratio, too. It managed to recruit four men with gymnastic abilities. David J. T. Vanderburgh '80-3, a cheerleader, says he joined because cheering is "an outlet for gymnastics," and it appealed to his "sense of whimsey." Anyway, he adds, "I get a good view of the football team...
...WHIMSEY TOOK HER Edited by Margaret P. Hannay Kent State University; 301 pages...
...musical attempts a whimsically feminist revision of the story of original sin. But since feminism can be as conventional as sexism, the whimsey--rather than the protest against the myth's male bias--wins out. The notion that God might be a she instead of a he is amusing to play with. And if the first woman had gone by description alone, she might, like Ravenal's Eve, have assumed that the forbidden fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...