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...thinks the country is on the wrong track because the family unit has broken down. She drives a gas-guzzling station wagon because it's safe but worries so much about the environment that she collects cans at work to recycle at home and uses the same plastic-foam Diet Pepsi cup for a week. She doesn't believe in God, but believes in the Ten Commandments because "I know they're the right thing to do." And while she doesn't have time for newspapers or TV network news, she intends to do what she always does before presidential...
...English is such a plastic language," she said. "I feel like I can write the rhythms of any language in English...
...sorts of books. While they self-importantly lay bare the meaninglessness of celebrity worship, they simultaneously exploit that very failing--an insatiable desire to read about the movie business. For I'm Losing You, Wagner has indeed rounded up the usual suspects: nihilistic agents, pornographers, washed-up producers, depraved plastic surgeons. And they are indeed doing the usual things: having soulless sex, taking drugs, using each other. Nevertheless, Wagner has written a novel of disciplined excess, with beautifully concentrated prose and a sometimes heartbreaking polyphony of voices...
...neck--where a man's Adam's apple would be--a clear, plastic tube extends out from underneath her high collar. The tube leads to the back of her wheelchair and connects to a large, black metal...
Last night, Featherstone-creator of the pink plastic flamingo-was properly lauded for his contribution to humanity...