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...this collection of eight brief stories, author Michael Martone emphasizes first one and then another facet of the title. Through it, he explores the manner in which truth somehow becomes a process of canonization. Though the popular legends around which these stories revolve range from James Dean to Ezra pound, the author exhibits a unity of purpose to depict a particular state of mind where the boundary between truth and fiction becomes hazy and indistinct. At the heart of these shitting surfaces lies Indiana itself, where these legends are tended and kept alive nameless, faceless acolytes...
These disparate characters spend their time, such as it exists, furtively scrutinizing each other. "We did not care who was watching us watching," remarks Alfred Kinsey; yet, they are careful, instinctively, to avoid revealing anything about themselves. The housemother wistfully recollects an accidental and inconclusive encounter with Ezra pound years ago-an evening spent listening to his soliloquizing, declaiming to the air forgetful of her colorless presence. Surrounded by irrefutable evidence of the futility of her existence, she tries to imbue this did not have by keeping it a carefully guarded secret...
...Barrows' establishment, based in a brownstone, took 60% of each woman's earnings. The women had to shave their legs daily, and Barrows kept careful menstrual and weight charts on them. Those who got a bit flabby were suspended from work for two days for each extra pound. "She ran a pretty tight ship," concedes one police officer...
...find it difficult to understand, and I think many members of NACODS will find it difficult to understand, why the strike has been called," complained Thatcher. The NACODS action, together with the $1.35-per-bbl. drop in North Sea oil prices, caused near panic in British financial markets; the pound sank to $1.18, its lowest point in history against the dollar, and the London stock market recorded its sharpest one-day fall ever...
...economic impact last week in Britain was sharp and swift. The $1.35-per-bbl. price cut will diminish the government's $13 billion annual oil revenues by about 5%. On the day of the announcement, the British pound fell to a record low of $1.19. Shaken by the skidding currency and a possible worsening of the country's coal miners' strike, traders on the London Stock Exchange sent the Financial Times industrial share index to its steepest one-day loss in history...