Word: codas
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...wife's request. This allows a few familiar divertissements. Al's upward mobility, for instance, is traced in increasingly fancy expense-account menus ("O Clams Casino! O Sweetbreads Gramercy!") and escalating malapropisms: "What atmosphere! This place sure has milieu." His inevitable professional decline thereafter produces a characteristic coda: "Going downhill is uphill work all the way, baby cakes...
...BOOK is divided into four parts- Body. Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral...
...stylistic meeting place for old and new. It begins with that familiar buzzing, distorted guitar sound and inimitable druggy sentiments ("Yeah, you've got plastic boots/ Y'all got cocaine eyes Yeah you got speed freak jive"), then shifts suddenly into a long Latin-based instrumental coda that shows how well the Stones have been keeping up with the times in general, and Santana in particular...
Tristana. Like their greatest paisano, Picasso, Spanish geniuses have their roots in another century or their homes in another country. Except for that grand exception: Luis Buñuel. The Old Aragonese, 70, has reached a modus vivendi with Franco Spain, and returned to create in Tristana a coda of inexhaustible power and sophistication. Like the world reflected in a convex mirror, every element is in this masterwork -but somehow transfigured and amplified. People are themselves and something other. Even the film's title has a dual meaning: Tristana suggests "sadness," and is the name of its heroine, impeccably...
Roger was still there for the Coda; when the darkness of city life re-emerged as meth-amphetamine. It was a ritual victory for plastic and concrete, and Roger, after getting ripped-off and beat up, came back East. But since it all happens about a year late in Cambridge, he was just in time for the capitulation of Cambridge Hippic. He was all set, in a sense. Roger probably would not think of it in these terms. This is overview, and what Roger knows about his life now is what he new then: that he has to stay alive...