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...Brewer, owner of Brigham's, a traditional Phools' Week haunt, said he wasn't sure whether the Lampoon brigade stopped by this semester. "They may have--or they may have been nuts--we throw 'em all out," he said...
...discontent. Catastrophe no longer dogs Rabbit's heels. He is afflicted instead with dented fenders, with enough money to know that it will not buy him what he wants, whatever that may be. He is in the process of forgetting his dream, just as his city of Brewer in southeastern Pennsylvania has paved over its past with highways that, thanks to oil prices, may lead nowhere. He peddles Japanese cars to Americans; something has gone wrong in his native land. He thinks: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing...
...mastered a supple stream of consciousness that perfectly conveys Rabbit's darting curiosity. This former high school jock may lack all but the rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment of the Bee Gees, "white men who have done this wonderful thing of making themselves sound like black women...
...Running. Harry has continued the running he began up in the Poconos, as a way of getting his body back from those sodden years he never thought about it, just ate and did what he wanted, restaurant lunches downtown in Brewer plus the Rotary every Thursday, it begins to pack on. The town is dark he runs through, full of slanty alleys and sidewalks cracked and tipped from underneath, whole cement slabs lifted up by roots like crypt lids in a horror movie, the dead reach up, they catch athis heels...
...last associate vice president for government affairs--Michael Brewer--left the University almost two years ago. Local leaders claimed before and after Brewer's departure that University officials were often inaccessible...