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...Barthelme's fictional landscape is familiar: a plot of undifferentiated clutter, hedged about with manicured non sequiturs. Though billed as nonfiction, this collage of pieces reads suspiciously like his past story collections-fragmented, humming with vaguely malevolent absurdities. This book's innocent pleasures stem from seeing how far the author can jump. The Consumer Bulletin Annual, for instance, hardly seems a bouncy platform for whimsy. Yet Barthelme somersaults from it into the tale of a hapless soul whose purchases consistently turn out to be substandard. "Consider the case of the bedside clock. 'Check for loudness of tick...
ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN Carries only the master's name. It is signed by his epigone, Paul Morrissey, who was responsible also for Heat, Trash and Flesh. The movie features the usual Morrissey crew: harpies, fag hags, neuters and no-talents clutter up the screen and pop out of it in 3D, which is two more dimensions than they would provide without technological assistance. The prevailing notion is a retooling of Mary Shelley, en cumbered with dismal sex and heaping portions of grue. Limbs, entrails and corpses come whizzing over the heads of the audience, along with various...
...tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
...literary life would be nothing but a kind of indecent curiosity, and an invasion of privacy, were it not that it seeks always to illuminate the mysterious and magical process of creation." Blotner fails this test; he does not disengage the essence of Faulkner's life from the eternal clutter of days and years in order to write of the life of the mind, the emotions, and the creativity...
...collection of all this material, a dull six-week job enlivened only by the occasional breakdown of the projector or a lunchtime basketball game, is a prelude for Simla's key off-season job: rewriting the offensive and defensive scripts. "To get the clutter out of our playbook," explains Shula, "we have to scrap plays that don't work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics...