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Although Congress has just recently woken up to the danger of the oil takeovers--not to mention similar horror stories in the steel and railroad industries--nobody has done anything to stop them. The 1961 Reagan tax cuts for corporations gave them the fuel for their orgiastic frenzy of violent buyouts: the impotence of his attorney general in stopping them has acted as encouragement...
...music to its basics without any resultant loss in force, especially guitarist Kralle Kawinkle, who rocks the songs out with his driving guitar riffs. The other two members of the band are also quite proficient: Stephan Remmier sings lead with his rough, clear voice as if he had just woken up with bad breath, and produces some nice synthesizer runs; while Peter Behren keeps up a steady (almost monotonous) drum beat...
...three siblings slept on dirt floors. Woken each morning before sunrise, they were shepherded to distant work fields, just to keep them tired. Independent canting was punishable by death; laborers were fed communal "meals"--always boiled water with a countable number of rice grains. Lien and her brothers quickly adapted to their new lifestyles because they were too delirious to do otherwise. Weak from overwork and malnutrition, they could only focus their attention on food and day-by-day survival. Together they conjured up imaginary servings, as if the words alone could nourish them. While a nearby campfire...
When not embracing. Dan and Francine play tarot or talk about China, about Francine's Chinese roommate, who would have nightmares when left alone overnight. Eddy tells me about West Germany, about the East German soldiers woken to drill for attack every night until they say, "I wish we could wipe them out so we could get some sleep." We place bets on whether the Chinese scientist traveling with his colleagues to a conference in Yugoslavia will change out of his pajamas before we reach Moscow...
Still, consistent teleological revelations run throughout the narrative. There is no disjunction in the character of a man who is woken up by his catamite to have an audience with an archbishop. The search for a God who can explain homosexuality while maintaining the propriety accorded to ordinary Christian virtues is carried on all around Toomey. Although he values his sexual freedom and grudgingly places some weight on the Catholic theology he grew up with, Toomey never allows himself to be as obsessed with the reconciliation of faith and fellatio that hounds his homosexual friends and lovers. He recognizes that...