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...things to your wife that you would never say to another woman or to a man." The speaker is an even-tempered, otherwise happily married tennis pro, a former English teacher and Ph.D. in education who used to play mixed doubles with his wife. As Gardner Stern, a Chicago supermarket executive who met his second wife on a tennis court, says, "With my wife on the court, I'm a regular Jekyll and Hyde...
Occasionally the need to emphasize white superiority entails minor sacrifices. A friend told me that, "When we first came here from England I used to drive the family car to work. My wife had to get to the nearby supermarket and so she bought a bicycle...
Irving Wallace, or Arthur Hailey, or any of the other neo-realists in the supermarket-check-out-counter-school of modern American fiction might have been able to go somewhere with this plot, but Agnew simply does not know where to start. Nothing happens for the first two hundred pages. Agnew introduces his characters with an almost Proustian verve for description, but his idea of expressing meaningful detail is to inform the reader every time a character shaves, or brushes his teeth. Then, when the action finally takes place--most of it in the final fifty pages--Agnew makes...
...town of McKees Rocks on Pittsburgh's northern boundary, Woods listens sympathetically as Nellie King, a women's club leader, disparages all the candidates. She ends up saying she may be for Jackson, and she agrees to give out Woods' handbills. At a Giant Eagle supermarket, a woman who seems uninterested in the presidential election tells Woods he looks like a tall Kirk Douglas. Benjamin Woods (6 ft. 3 in.) also looks like a winner in the 42nd, and if Jackson ultimately is a loser, Woods will be with Humphrey in July...
Hurtig and Reid campaign together. The pictures on their campaign flyer feature Udall with Charles Bowser, a black political leader who is opposed to Rizzo and supports Udall. But as Hurtig and Reid approach shoppers at a supermarket, it becomes clear from the response that Udall would need months, rather than days, to make a dent in Philadelphia. Moreover, the Udall apparatus in the city is tiny and contentious...