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...Wurlitzer proves in Nog that the creation of a mind-altering experience need not entail abandonment of conventional verbal expression. He has written a book, a linear book with no non-linear tricks, a book that Gutenberg would recognize as a book, that takes as powerful control over the reader as any of the other approaches people have rediscovered or invented...
...claim may be inaccurate, but no Soviet reader would impute any negative intent to it. To the Western visitor, the majority of Moscow street sweepers appear to be women-and the older the better. Babushka seems to have only two choices: baby-sit with the grandchildren or help sweep the streets. The circumstances of this exclusively geriatric female occupation is not completely lost on the Russians, however. During the Khrushchev regime (remember him?), the following joke was current in Moscow: It was rumored Khrushchev had an argument with a woman member of the party Presidium. "I'll have...
...blood must be followed. Premonitions invariably come true. A series of coded predictions, written when Macondo was still young, are deciphered only when every prediction has been fulfilled, including the final, devastating wind that takes apart Macondo. The future is thus history, the end is the beginning, and the reader is tempted to start again...
Dennison is a gifted storyteller; he somehow allows the reader, in Martin Buber's words, to "imagine the real," the overwhelming total reality of the children's actual lives. As he tells the story of First Street, you live nine-year-old Maxine's ebullience, you share her wondrous obsession with what sex is really about. You live Jose's paralyzing fear and hatred of all things having to do with school; you feel at one moment his absolute uncertainty, at the next his indomitable but anxious pride, at the next the growing sense of security in his relationship with...
...statement came in response to a question from a reader which said that some Democrats had said Agnew...