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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (93236)	4/5/2008 5:23:54 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 110194

is blazenzim german for sucking a hummer? my google is having a hard time with it. <g>

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (93236)	4/5/2008 7:47:17 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

Brazil is loaded with 60 to 80 year old men with 18 year old boys and girls, It is an industry. Only in select communities like Palm Beach can you even get a feel for it in the U.S. Wolfe descibes perfectly the absurd relastionships between older men and younger women in A Man In Full, a book that has you belly laughing. google.com -------- On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon. Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life: In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms. Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus =================================================== So you think sex is easier had in Brazil than in the US to the degree that would be a primary motive for going there?> Not sex in general but sex with a beautiful woman under 30 yrs. old. For a guy pushing 60, you have virtually no chance at sex with a beautiful woman 30+ yrs. younger than you in America. In Brazil, the poverty is so bad that an apparently wealthy American has a great chance at sex with a beautiful 20 something yr. old woman. >I simply don't know how to call a turd anything other than a turd.< This would be a turd post. Message 24471685 >I respect George Carlin. He speaks the truth in a very direct but crude manner and hates political correctness. Many people can't handle him.< Then you understand. Message 24471542