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The death of the gay student who was kidnapped and beaten in Wyoming grabs front space at the NYT , LAT , and USAT , and is the subject of the NYT 's lead editorial, which points out that Wyoming, like nine other states, has no hate-crime laws.
YUGO is taken, NEWSQIZ is still up for grabs, as is UGLY.
About an hour into the picture he grabs Edgecomb through the bars, puts his hand against the man's crotch, and generates a mystical white light; he then exhales a swarm of evil-looking black particles that dissipate into the ether.
The story also sits atop the Wall Street Journal 's front-page news index box and is fronted below the fold by the Washington Post , whose top non-local story is the paper's new polling on the New Hampshire primaries showing that both the Democratic and Republican races are "up for grabs."
The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.