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This linguistic paella, a free-form blend of Spanish and English, is popularly known as Spanglish. It is becoming an increasingly common conversational mode in areas with heavy concentrations of Hispanic immigrants, especially California, the Gulf Coast and New York City. The informal acceptance of this hybrid reflects the fact that in those areas Spanish has become more than a foreign language though still less than a second language...
...second mode is eclectic quotation from the image-haze, like a distracted viewer spinning the TV dial. Its leading practitioner in the U.S., among those born after 1950, is David Salle, 32. His main compositional device, putting emblems over a tangle of "transparent" figures, came straight from late Francis Picabia and perhaps from Salle's German contemporary Sigmar Polke. There is also a strong debt to earlier James Rosenquist. Salle draws, or rather traces, awkwardly and flatly. His imagery mimics the nullifying influence of TV, its promotion of derisive inertia as the hip way of seeing. Underneath, a congealed eroticism...
...scenes on the gritty sidewalks of Manhattan allow Berger to find a more congenially savage mode, incorporating an authentic urban snarl into his impeccable diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself...
...spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal 1987. The Nunn amendment also states that Congress could in the future reconsider deploying a larger number of missiles if some more "mobile and deceptive" basing mode should be devised. The amendment was passed by a 78-20 vote. "I don't view this as the end of the MX," Nunn said afterward. "I view it as the end of the MX in fixed silos...
...stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art . . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." . That could be the credo of Mavis Gallant's most affecting heroine...