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...answer. Though written with Paul Du Brul, a city planner, the book's thesis is pure Newfield: the city was not merely short-shrifted by federal policy, let down by feckless mayors and leeched by the unions. The case was, and remains, an exercise in gang rape with enough perpetrators to fill a penitentiary...
...drowned out by T.R.'s perorations on manifest destiny. With the birth of the U.S.-sponsored Republic of Panama, the witty Secretary of War, Elihu Root, told his President, "You have shown that you were accused of seduction and you have conclusively proved that you were guilty of rape...
Mayer uses the plight of the aging comic-book hero to parody most of what characterizes America and everything that makes up New York. Shortly after the novel begins, chaos strikes the bankrupt Metropolis. The unpaid and overworked police force have resigned en masse and looting, rape and murder pervade. Brinkley, watching football, curses his bookie and tries to ignore the city's crisis until the fateful thought strikes him, "Is it a conspiracy?" Needless to say, it is. And Brinkley plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife...
...through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick foot work. Apparently, Speed's affinity for fruit is supposed to be comic, but all he ever does with the apples is eat them and the banana-rape is a tired...
...Murder, arson, rape! Feel safe. Be prepared to save your family...