Word: giantess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biblical Stock Market. A one-day, Soviet-style marriage with a grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz...