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That's the good part. What is exasperating about Isaacs' novel is that every even-numbered chapter breaks off from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at great length, was pretty and petulant and absorbed all their parents' attention; her father was a Jewish businessman who tried unsuccessfully to be a Wasp; the husband Lily eventually married was handsome but shallow...
...with surprisingly mild repercussions on many of those it infects--unless it turns out to be symptomatic of an economy heading off a cliff. Those declaring bankruptcy can still end up keeping their homes, their cars, their jobs and even some credit cards. The most popular provisions are in Chapter 7, which enables the overburdened to shed most of their IOUs; some debtors need only fill out a two-page form. Connoisseurs say the best places to go bust are Texas and Florida, where debtors can hold on to more of their assets than in any other states...
...movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Several TV appearances and lots of press later, the belle of Savannah, Georgia, is doing what all divas of a certain age do: releasing memoirs. Hiding My Candy doesn't just relate Chablis' life, but also offers recipes, a lexicon and a chapter on "Beauty and Fashion Tips for the Aspirin' Transvestite." Whatever anyone thinks of her life-style, Chablis has a way with words. She describes one woman she meets as "eight miles of bad road, from the nun's neckline of her tacky new dress down to those Li'l Debbie Snackin' Cake...
...latest chapter in this saga occurred earlier this spring. On March 17, the Undergraduate Council voted to have the ROTC ceremony moved from the Yard. The Council demanded that the event be held off-campus, citing its disapproval of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military as the reason for the resolution...
...beginning of her chapter on health and emergencies, for example, Hanson writes, "Few things suck more than being sick at college, unless you count Dracula." And a bit later, in the section on athlete's foot: "Like us in so many things, fungi, too, prefer intimate attachments with the buff. But don't rush for the barbells--you too, inactive one, may be blessed by union with some microbes whose biological clocks are telling them to settle down...