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...here is Benito's problem: There is a fellow conspirator on board the San Dominick. It was all right in 1972 to lead insurgencies against Hubert, Ed, Scoop and the entire army of crooked-bicycle-parkers that campaigned in Florida. But Jimmy Carter, the Cheshire cat media mirage says he has only been to Washington to get on the tour bus and wants to wipe out the bureaucrats as badly as Wallace...
...American electorate too stupid to choose proper leaders and at a capitalistic oligarchy that systematically cheats the common yeomanry. A litany developed: all people are innately bisexual (though not all choose to act it); the police persecute people for private preference and turn a blind eye to fat-cat criminality; the end is near...
...women live in East Hampton, Long Island, performing some dizzy charade out of The Madwoman of Chaillot. Grey Gardens, the crumbling house they inhabit, is overrun by raccoons, squirrels and other woodland creatures. The two women live mostly in one room, where the beds .are covered with cans of cat food, the floors ankle-deep in garbage. Occasionally a handyman named Jerry drops by for a visit...
Even when we are graced with a straightforward assessment of his mother, it is imprecise: she is "highstrung," or "willful," or "impressionable." Once he goes so far as to describe her as the "cat's canary" of the family. This murky cliche is repeated several times, as if to emphasize that it is a "key" to solving the mystery of Mme. Simenon. By page 90 (the book is 91 pages), Simenon is ready to terminate his garbled investigation, now thoroughly redundant, and give us his solution. It seems, finally, that she "needs to be good", in spite and in face...
...program, Carter will only say Americans have to sell more products abroad, the government must "remove incentives for corporations to move overseas," and "channel R&D into areas that would have greater impact on our jobs." There are no hows or whys behind anything he says. Just teeth--Cheshire cat teeth with an elusive image behind...