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...claims to be a poet. Actually, he is a sort of well-tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser flair for dope-running--he caches a large supply of cocaine on the roof of their Baden hotel only to dash up there during a rainstorm in time to find thousands of dollars literally going down the drain. He follows Jackson back to her home near London, where the husband, a pulp-fiction writer, dying to discover whether or not they are having an affair, invites the young man to stay with them indefinitely. In setting...
...dooryard and out stepped a tall man who proved to be the President of the U.S. The coachman would then investigate the stables, the President the rooms. If both proved too dirty for beast and man, the President would set out again, once in the middle of a torrential rainstorm although he did not know where on the deserted road he would find another tavern. He was puzzled that he received no dispatches from the capital. It turned out that due to a confusion of mails and roads, his Government did not know exactly where he was for almost...
...realization it comes straight out of the blue for one thing, only the most attentive reader will recall at this point that Julie's father has been mentioned. It bears all the earmarks of a shattering revelation: Julie breaks down post coitum and sobs, the weather obliges with a rainstorm to maintain the right mood, and the chapter comes to an end. But it is revelation in a vacuum, unexpected and without point Alvarez never created a sense that anything needed revealing. There is no mystery or tension in this book, because nothing is hidden, and nothing is unexplained...
...Ethiopia, famine in Welo and Tigre provinces left nearly 100,000 dead last year; some people were so weakened that when a rainstorm struck Dese, the capital of Welo, they drowned in a couple of inches of water, unable to raise their heads from the gutter. Now the drought is expanding into other areas. In Harar province's Danakil Desert, the nomadic tribesmen are in danger of dying out as a race. Carcasses of their cattle, sheep, goats and camels litter the desert; the surviving animals are so scrawny that cows, once worth $60 in the marketplace...
Goldson shot 16 for 28 from the floor and had a perfect night at the charity stripe to total 38 points. He dampened Cantabrigian hopes as effectively as any December rainstorm, tallying 22 points in the first half alone...