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...hapless, unwilling tax inspector. There is a dark and extremely unamusing family secret that has made the Catchprices so miserable and so horrid to one another. What begins as slapstick evolves into tragedy, and Carey does not adequately prepare the ground for this transition. In the end, a reader is left with the uncomfortable sense of having laughed in all the wrong places. If that was Carey's intention, he succeeded, but he should perhaps expect only a muted form of gratitude...
Each ScanFone unit, which can also function as a regular telephone, features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...
...deviousness, the bullying and the lying, which ultimately consumed Johnson, are reported so graphically in some passages that a reader must wonder how Califano or any other person could work for such a tyrant. "Unzip your fly," L.B.J. challenged Califano, when the aide believed he had cut a good deal with Arkansas' wily Senator John McClellan. "There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it." Califano still marvels over seeing Johnson crony Abe Fortas, by then a Supreme Court Justice, counsel the President on how the government should...
...movie's producer called William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel that, and he was right. A gallimaufry of hallucinations, literary gossip and medical info, Burroughs' confession of a hipster junkie is its own X-rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone bad, a soul shriveled. "Gentle reader," he writes, "the ugliness of that spectacle buggers description." Which Burroughs of course describes, in language both raw and heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes...
This second narrative draws the reader in and personalizes Vladek's unreal life in the death camps. The suffering which Art Spiegelman sensed under the surface of his family life comes alive. When Francoise and Artie cannot sleep because Vladek screams in his sleep, the effects of the holocaust upon those who lived through it becomes all the more tangible. Spiegelman has said that he grew up thinking it was normal to live in a house where people woke up screaming every night...