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...Australia, the newspapers list American baseball scores every day. The Super Bowl is one of the most anticipated television sports events of the year. Every once in a while, you can catch a random gridiron game on TV, such as a Philadelphia Eagles preseason game...
...years of covering stories in and around New York City, that was the closest Attinger has come to the random, violent crime that so disturbs the people who live and visit here. "I've never been mugged or anything, and the city doesn't frighten me," she says. "But I'm careful when I'm out in the streets. I'm aware of who is near me, and I never bump anyone. Always being so on guard can become oppressive...
Fair enough, but Hartke is not a vivid enough central figure so that his dismay illuminates the wreckage. Too much about him seems random, taken without calculation from the parts bin. Why, for instance, has the author named him after Eugene V. Debs, the great U.S. socialist? Merely, or so it appears, because Vonnegut likes the contrast of Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign...
Pepsi insists that the word is an accident, the result of a random, computer-generated design based on the letters in Pepsi's name. The company concluded the promotion last month, but some cans remain on store shelves. The fluky labeling "has become an in thing with young people," claims TV consumer reporter David Horowitz. "My own 12-year-old is running around with the cans, showing everyone...
NATION: As random shootings claim five children's lives, New Yorkers ask, Is anyone safe...