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	The Monkey Wrench Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927-1989), published in 1975.
		The novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest ecologically damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any violence, sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.
		In The Monkey Wrench Gang, the enemy invading the American Southwest -- despoiling the land, befouling the air, and destroying Nature and the sacred purity of Abbey's world -- culminates in the gang's abject hatred of the Glen Canyon Dam which the monkeywrenchers long to destroy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang (763 words)

	Jonathan Yardley
		Not until Our Gang (1971) and The Breast (1972) did Roth's star dim for me, as I began to sense that so much of his work is drawn from a deep well of self-absorption and indifference to the world beyond.
		Apart from Gabe, the novel's focus is on a young married couple, Paul and Libby Herz, with whom he develops a strangely competitive and intimate relationship.
		Our Gang is a satire of Richard Nixon and his administration, written before Watergate, during a period when Nixon had taken stands not to Roth's liking on abortion and other matters.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/25/AR2005082501470_pf.html (1252 words)

	[No title]
		Then our driver, whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of the boxseat,--"gotza" they call them--cracked his big whip over his four small horses, which ran abreast, and we set off on our journey.
		The only light was the flickering rays of our own lamps, in which the steam from our hard-driven horses rose in a white cloud.
		I could see from the flash of our lamps as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coal-fl and splendid animals.
	www.geocities.com /psmcalduff/2dracula.txt (24920 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a novel experiment, the state Department of Corrections is shipping prison gang leaders to other facilities across the country where they'll find themselves in the racial minority.
		Gang violence remains one of the most stubborn problems for corrections officials at all levels, and if it proves successful, Arizona's nascent program could end up being duplicated by other states across the country.
		While gang problems exist at every level - federal, state, and county - they tend to be less severe at the federal level because of the government's willingness to move prisoners from one location to another more freely.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1999/07/21/p2s1.htm (934 words)

	Books : The Great American Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
		This novel fizzles out by the end, but before that comes some of the most hilarious and entertaining writing you can possibly read.
		Philip Roth's THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL is a big, bulbous, brocaded, bullshooting joke whether viewed from the box seats behind home plate or way in the back row of the right field bleachers-but let me not get pulled into the alliterative traps in which Roth indulges himself by way of his narrator, one Word Smith.
	arabiadirectory.com /0679749063/The_Great_American_Novel.shtml (522 words)

	Pindeldyboz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sly prints all of our homework assignments for us with an old typesetting machine which is stored in his basement, and even, on occasion, when we are all feeling tired, or simply don’t want to do our homework, Sly completes the assignments for us.
		He is the bully of our gang, the Great Protector of our particular circle, even though he is easily humiliated, easily shamed, which we sometimes do, as a group, just to show him who’s really in charge.
		Frog Bait has intervened in certain situations on our behalf; thwarting would-be bullies, stealing lunch money from other kids when one of us had forgotten ours, and insisting that he had been the one that caused trouble in class, when he hadn't, when it had been someone else in our gang instigating the trouble.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /sbgang.htm (1847 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Thought Gang: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novel is a darkly sarcastic comedy that proffers insight into the mind of an Oxford Professor of Philosophy and his less than brilliant, thieving acquaintances.
		The quality of writing is impressive, a real joy is taken in playing with words, sending sentences cascading towards sometimes hairy conclusions with the irreverence of a drunken muskateer, to which the plot, when it is evident, plays a sometimes psychotic foil.
		All in all then, the novel serves as a hilarious analogy for life as it appears within the novel, hugely imperfect, but strangely beautiful and effective.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0749395508 (828 words)

	Black Film Center/Archive Film Holdings: "O" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One True Thing (1999) - Based on the novel by Anna Quindlen, the film examines the confusing, painful and ultimately healing circumstances that occur when Ellen Gulden (Renée Zellweger), a Manhattan journalist, is forced to move back home to help her middle-age parents through a crisis.
		Our Gang (1922) - First of Our Gang series; story line has the gang helping the widowed mother of one of the gang members who runs the village store recapture business lost to an unscrupulous new merchant.
		Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1938) - The gang stages a musical show in its kid-rigged cellar theatre.
	www.indiana.edu /~bfca/collection/films/films_O.html (980 words)

	Perfect Words
		The words focus of Words and Music is our writers' conference, Perfect Words, which annually attracts a faculty of some 100 men and women, including successful fiction writers, nonfiction authors, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, agents, editors, publishers, actors, and musicians.
		Her debut novel, The Fifth Sun, was published last year to rave reviews and has received numerous prizes awarded for fiction by Hispanic authors.
		The book is narrated by the wife of famed songwriter Paul Westerberg and is a humorous and poignant saga of pop culture, stardom, and the changing meanings of having a dream.
	www.wordsandmusic.org /aboutperfect.html (1336 words)

	Marching Orders - E. L. Doctorow and the problem of historical novels. By J.D. Connor
		Alessandro Manzoni's blockbuster debut novel, The Betrothed (1827), was the first Italian historical novel in the vein of Sir Walter Scott.
		If the great formal problem of the historical novel is knowing when to stop and nudge the reader and when not to, Doctorow solves it by finding myriad ways of doing both simultaneously.
		Late in the novel, Harper is dramatically blinded by a muzzle flash.
	www.slate.com /id/2126202 (1569 words)

	The Human Stain
		Throughout the novel, characters are portrayed as caricatures through a set of preexisting and clichd stories--Coleman is the racist professor and lecherous old man who takes advantage of a woman half his age; Faunia Farley is the na•ve and helpless victim; Les Farley is the crazed, abusive husband.
		Late in the novel, Nathan discovers that Faunia had kept a diary and that "the illiteracy had been an act, something she decided her situation demanded" [p.
		The Human Stain is a novel of sweeping ambition that tells the stories not just of individual lives but of the moral ethos of America at the end of the twentieth century.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/humanstain (1406 words)

	Laurel and Hardy - Newsletter Mar-Apr 1998
		Our next meeting will be Tuesday, April 7th, and it will begin at our new starting time of 7:15 PM.
		Dues are responsible for most of our yearly operating budget, so the sooner you pay the sooner we'll be able to pay our bills.
		Our special guest for the evening, Dean Mora (leader of Mora's Modern Rhythmists), started us off accompanying the singing of the Sons of the Desert song.
	www.wayoutwest.org /archive/31-2.html (2046 words)

	Our Gang, by Neil Anthony
		Robert McGowan is their director and he has been since the inception of the "Our Gang" idea, and from him we learned something of the methods he uses to induce the rascals to perform cleverly before the camera.
		To keep them interested in their work and encourage each and every member of the "gang" to thoroughly enter into the spirit of the film scenes, he has a standing offer of twenty-five cents reward for each gag suggested that is used before the camera.
		Mildred Kornman is a "hit" and the other members of "Our Gang" yell "We tolja so -- we tolja to use her!".
	www.west.net /~ke6jqp/pathe.htm (2476 words)

	Scriptorium - Raymond Queneau
		Although Queneau's novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail.
		Talking about his first novel, Le Chiendent (usually translated as The Bark Tree), he pointed out that it had 91 sections, because 91 was the sum of the first 13 numbers, and also the product of two numbers he was particularly fond of: 7 and 13.
		Exercices de style is a collection of 99 short-short pieces which recount, in different styles, the same banal incident: in the bus, the narrator bumps into a man with a long neck, and later sees him on a train station in the company of a friend who fixes a button on his coat.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/queneau.html (1706 words)

	The American Street » Blog Archive » Advise and Consent Redux
		Novels that deal with what is most important to all of us, including Politicians, are important.
		And while a novel about Bill and Monica might be written that’s more lively and expansive than the one I imagined above, I’ve already read Jeffrey Toobin’s A Vast Conspiracy and Joe Conason and Gene Lyon’s Hunting of the President, not to mention the relevent chapters of Bill’s and Hillary’s memoirs.
		He seems to think that a political novel is a novel about politicians, particularly politicians who are either in Washington or on their way there.
	www.reachm.com /amstreet/archives/2005/11/02/advise-and-consent-redux (1399 words)

	National Review: 45th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - Our Gang - staff members - Brief Article
		When I first met her, I mentioned she was famous for this reason, and she denied it, but then she remembered this: "I was in a bank one time, out in Long Island, and the teller said, 'Are you the Dorothy McCartney?'" The teller, too, knew Dorothy from Firing Line-just like the rest of America.
		In the "art room" are Jessica Kelsey, our half-French (and engaged) web master, and Luba Kolomytseva, our art director, who is from Ukraine, and who is one of three native Russian speakers at NR (the others being Galina Veygman and Irina Dynkevich of the accounting department).
		In our library is John Virtes, NR's research director, whose diligence and steadiness are wonders of nature.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_25_52/ai_68163659 (954 words)

	The Philip Roth Society
		This was followed in 1967 by When She Was Good, another novel in the realistic mode that takes as its focus a rare narrative voice in Roth's fiction: a young Midwestern female.
		These novels trace the development of Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, from an aspiring young writer to a socially compromised, and psychologically besieged, literary celebrity.
		Reminiscent of the four works preceding it, the new novel appears to continue the author’s exploration of American identities, national as well as individual, within the contexts of its history.
	orgs.tamu-commerce.edu /rothsoc/bio.htm (1340 words)

	MELUS: The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang." - Book Review
		Messenger supports his position by acknowledging that the thirty million copies sold in the 1970s made it the best-selling novel of the decade, and, well over thirty years later, phrases from The Godfather have made their way into our language.
		While suggesting that Americans are embracing the Corleones and their culture in many areas, Messenger is not unaware that this attraction towards authority, family images, and business acumen encoded there must be accompanied in the reader's psyche by an adjustment in attitude toward the family business, murder, which most people find repugnant.
		In doing this, Messenger approaches the text from many different perspectives, and this is where his critical study of one novel becomes a discussion of the way popular fiction can colonize a culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_28/ai_110473975 (1261 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Vanessa: Family Tree. Sequel to Vanessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first half of this second novel basically revolves around the investigation of these mysterious events, centering on the detective activities of a special Task Force consisting of a ghost hunter and his famous ghost-sniffing Chihuahua, an officer in the Georgia National Guard, a Milledgeville cop, an FBI agent, and a well-known independent journalist.
		This gang of experts compiles an impressive amount of information before confronting the group head-on, at which point the novel takes a much different turn.
		As for our gang of heroes from the first book, we follow their winding-down activities after the confrontation in Georgia and return to home base, where among other things they take care of sending family lawyer (and new ghost companion) Gustav's body to the grave.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1931768072 (851 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Peter Carey
		"Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang purports to transcribe documents, 'thirteen parcels of stained and dog-eared papers,' in which the celebrated outlaw, on the run, set down for the benefit of his daughter (whom he was destined never to see) a heartfelt account and justification of his short and violent life.
		The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high; hardly a colloquialism feels turned wrong, hardly a homely phrase feels rote, patronizing, or quaint.
		Carey (Booker Prize winner for Oscar and Lucinda) deserves to be lionized in his native land for this triumphant historical recreation, and he will undoubtedly win a worldwide readership for a novel that teems with energy, suspense, and the true story of a memorable protagonist.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/carey (1828 words)

	Amazon.com: Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang: Books: Joyce Carol Oates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She describes the time and place of the gang's formation and reveals who the others in the group with her were.
		By the mid-nineties she wrote one of her most publicly well-received works, We Were The Mulvaney's, and seemed for a time to emerge into a lighter vein of fiction, but for this novel at least, Oates' pessimistic theme of society diminishing the spirit of those who do not conform to it rings loud and clear.
		But gradually, as their gang grows in numbers, the girls are driven to further acts of violence; it seems to almost become an obsession for them, and it isn't long before they're in over their heads.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452272319?v=glance (1995 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We park our cars away from others only to have them pummeled with debris from workers using commercial size blowers cleaning the sidewalk.
		The only hold up in our drive is a road block by police looking at inspection stickers and seat belt usage.
		After 4 laps, we pull in, and again; Sylvia makes mention of a particular man who seems to be interested in getting pictures of our group........You guessed it, she was looking at Peter and didn't recognize him.
	users.rcn.com /tonyd23/LarryG.Stories/NSX/000608.html (2977 words)

	True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
		It does not matter that we are unable to pin Kelly to the facts of his life, only that we are willing and prepared to accept him as Carey reveals him to us, and to trust the kaleidoscopic array of characters and situations and the often startling images employed by Carey to create them.
		But the novel as a whole must be accounted a slight disappointment.
		There are many successful aspects to the True History of the Kelly Gang, from how Ned recounts his adventures to the leisurely pace of many of the crimes.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/careyp/thkellyg.htm (2420 words)

	notes from the peanut gallery
		Our close encounter with the leather set occured when we decided to have our penultimate dinner at a ritzy Japanese resto in Ormond Beach.
		Which meant that our collective sanity was on the line for the next lifetime of the long trip.
		However, much to our relief, Sage proved a cooperative passenger, demanding no more than a little girl on her second longhaul trip would demand (the first time around, she was less than a year old).
	deanalfar.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_deanalfar_archive.html (8444 words)

	RD Passions
		Our gang makes a deal with an automated repair station, which we discover has a mind of its own.
		Several people at various cons who have stories about their personal experiences with Chinese adoption have approached me. This subject, as many of you know, is a passion of mine.
		Hopefully we have each taken time to reevaluate our lives in light of recent events.
	www.roxanndawson.net /passions.html (494 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#!@ [Hodgepodge o' liberalism alert] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)*
		What is radically new in 2003 is that my daughter, along with our president and Saddam Hussein and on and on, has inherited technologies whose byproducts, whether in war or peace, are rapidly destroying the whole planet as a breathable, drinkable system for supporting life of any kind.
		I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers.
		When it became obvious what a dumb and cruel and spiritually and financially and militarily ruinous mistake our war in Vietnam was, every artist worth a damn in this country, every serious writer, painter, stand-up comedian, musician, actor and actress, you name it, came out against the thing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/830730/posts (3380 words)

	Scotty Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many Our Gang fans rank Scotty as the shoertest of all the kids.
		Wilbur's answer to this trouble is to devise an insurance policy for all the gang's members.
		Wilbur, still dressed in his short pants suit and glasses, saves the gang's dogs from the dogcatcher (a perennial villain in the "Our Gang" series).
	histclo.hispeed.com /the/movie/star/moviecssb.html (2553 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		To get ready to give thanks, our gang gets together (a day earlier) Tuesday, Nov. 25, at noon.
		Author Jamaica Kincaid is a native of Antigua, where her novel "Annie John" is set.
		It may be better in the Bahamas, but it's almost as good to be in the Bahamas in your mind.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/books/features/caribbeanbooks.htm (541 words)

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