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Foster might have attended to the poems and shown how willfully they use place-names (and in the later verse, Yeats' famous friends' names) to erect the mansion of Irish literature.
The president might be undone by the possible discrepancies between his testimony (helping Monica was Betty Currie's idea) and Vernon Jordan's (the "helping Monica" idea came via Currie, but it was originally Clinton's) (Liasson, Fox News Sunday ). Or by the deposition to be released by Jones' lawyers (Bill Kristol, This Week ). Or by Kathleen Willey's testimony--that Clinton placed her hand on his erect, but clothed, penis (Fred Barnes, McLaughlin Group ). Or by Starr's star witness, former Arkansas Gov.
The Godzilla who lumbers through a metropolis on two legs, erect, slowly crushing cars and knocking over buildings, robotically training his radioactive breath on anything and everything he sees, is a mythical vision of Armageddon.
The book, however, is internally powered by Ballard's patented transformation of cold into hot, turning medical and automotive jargon into spectacularly baroque metaphors: "Thinking of the extensor rictus of her spine during orgasm, the erect hairs on her undermuscled thighs, I stared at the stylized manufacturer's medallion visible in the photographs, the contoured flanks of the window pillars."
I loved Au Naturel , that bare mattress piece with the melon breasts and erect cucumber.