Word: ums
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...response, I would say, um, maybe it is. But what you are eating is offered for free--and desperate times demand desperate rationalizations...
Right. And then? Yes . . . er . . . um . . . At this point in a review it is customary to provide a little more detailed summary of the story, giving potential customers some concrete idea of what they're being asked to buy into. Well this time, forget it. What can be reported without hesitation is that there is another Jake, that he is played by Harvey Keitel, and that early in the film he catches his wife (Meg Tilly) in bed with his business partner and rubs him out. After that, you're on your own. In showing that what seems...
...Um, well, no they don't, um, like sending people into dangerous areas. Parents don't like it if we help their kids get killed." A nervous laugh...
...Um, sure, but I've only got seven bucks with...
From the sound of a V-2 rocket descending on London in the earlier novel to the cries of birds pilfering dog food in Vineland: um, as a Pynchon character might say, there seems to have been a little downscaling going on around here. The perception is accurate but also, as things develop, a trifle misleading. True, this time out Pynchon has not tried to top the apocalypse of Gravity's Rainbow. He has chosen a subject that may even cause some groaning (Oh, come on, man, grow up) among reviewers and fans: the attempts of some aging hippies...