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...preserve the sporting life? Or even the Second Amendment fundamentalist who believes, as Heston does, that any infringement of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a slide down the slope of totalitarianism? N.R.A. opponents suggest it is convenient for the group to try to drown out the clamor against handguns by changing the subject. But to Heston, who quips that "in Hollywood there are more gun owners in the closet than homosexuals," the cultural war is all of a piece with the war against guns. "We seem to be unloosening and unraveling as a nation...
...words [he] had found in the dictionary." Although Deane himself uses a sufficient number of twentyfive-cent words to be considered a "literary" author, for whatever that's worth, his style is as down-to-earth as any country boy's. His lovely prose reads effortlessly. Another writer would drown such a tenuous, fragile plot with the dense description Deane favors, but Deane makes observations like "a pulse passes up and down from my head to my toes as though someone had slashed me from behind" or "the armchairs on either side of the fire [were] now mute and emptied...
Imperceptibly morbid and achingly sorrowful, "In Spain, One Thousand and Three," the tale of a widower lusting after his dead wife's mother, is a story that gnaws at the open wound of the human soul that has lost its mate. The Seattle winds could hardly drown Martin Tuttleman's intense longing for companionship, whilst his profession (customer serviceperson in a video game company) involves precocious adolescents whose pretended social savvy aggravate him further by reminding him of what he no longer possessed...
...behind the vigil here this June 4 wanted their 40,000 candlelights to carry. But though the event was allowed to proceed with little governmental interference, people aren't so sure about the future. The local police broadcasted loud Beethoven symphonies at demonstrations on July 1 last year to drown out the shouts of protesters; many feel that the broadcast was only one of several recent signs that the government is slowly restricting their freedoms...
...they need more information? It's as if the Administration were announcing that every child must have the fanciest scuba gear on the market--but these kids don't know how to swim, and fitting them out with scuba gear isn't just useless, it's irresponsible; they'll drown...