Table of Contents: “…How Mickey made it -- Rayme -- Fast lanes -- Bluegill -- Something that happened -- Blue moon -- Bess…”

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Table of Contents: “…Fast-talking dames -- Female Pygmalions -- Blonde bombshells : Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Ginger Rogers -- My favorite brunettes : Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, and Claudette Colbert -- Missing links : Bringing up baby -- The lady-dame : Irene Dunne and The awful truth -- Garbo's laugh -- Female rampant : His girl friday -- The Lady Eve and the female con -- Blonds born yesterday.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Reba Is A State Child And What You Call Fast. --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Area burger joints take the junk out of fast food, from Edible Boston /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Passing and the sentimental novel -- Passing and the rise of realism -- Passing and the fictional autobiography -- Passing and the "fast yellowing manuscripts" -- Passing and the rise of mass culture -- Reading passing through a different lens.…”

Table of Contents: “…Fast forward: from Uncle Milty to the Huxtables -- The many aspects of networking -- Primetime: programming for the masses -- Other times, other pastimes -- Beyond the ratings: motives and benefits -- Romancing the viewer: the advertiser's game.…”

Table of Contents: “…Novels and life writing. Fast and loose ; Disintegration ; Literature ; Life and I ; Quaderno dello studente.…”

Table of Contents: “…Light of a dark river -- Animals fasting -- Spectrum and pallette -- A feast -- Amsterdam -- The letter -- The sea on its back -- The two trees -- A typography -- St Gregory's robe -- Inclusion by the sun -- The pietà of Cosimo Tura.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Parisian identities -- Framing the city : two Parisian windows -- The high view : three cityscapes -- Paris underground -- Insurrection -- Noisy and hysterical scenes : poetry in the city -- A walk in the park -- Conclusion : Baudelaire's watch, or the fast, the slow, and the intelligible.…”

Table of Contents: “…The spirit of fasting and Petter Nord.--The legend of the bird's nest.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Information machines and political man -- How good is fast? -- The audience for news -- Some peculiarities of American news -- The printed news system -- Printed news as a corporate enterprise -- The broadcast news system -- Broadcast news as a corporate enterprise -- Is print dying? …”

Table of Contents: “…Loss and love -- Seeds of ambition -- From Uganda X to cub reporter -- Growing but restless -- Fresh starts -- D.C. grind -- Fast tracked -- My Times -- Shifting priorities and alliances -- Joy and heartbreak -- The outsiders -- The greatest story -- Managing up, managing down -- The makings of a scandal -- Inquisition -- Free fall -- A time for good-byes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Feminine myths: replay or fast forward? 4. Enigma variations. 5. Caring and sharing. 6. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Message from the mountains -- Real soldiers of fortune -- Dawn in the Sierra -- Impenetrable fastnesses -- A chapter in a fantastic novel -- The best friend of the Cuban people -- Decisive battles -- You can fool some of the people -- All out of step but one -- Dark days -- Naming names -- Faithful adherence -- A cordial witness -- A good fight -- Epilogue.…”

Table of Contents: “…Meet the mamma (1925) -- Color struck (1926) -- Spears (1926) -- The first one (1927) -- Cold keener (1930) -- De turkey and de law (1930; with Langston Hughes) -- The sermon in the valley (1931; with Rowena Woodham Jelliffe) -- Four plays from Fast and furious (1931). Woofing ; Lawing and jawing ; Forty yards ; Poker! …”

Table of Contents: “…Grace -- Single out: Ruth Weiss -- Pieces of a song: Diane di Prima -- Artista: Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer -- Places to go: Joanne Kyger -- Drive: Hettie Jones -- In the night café: Joyce Johnson -- The story and its writer: Ann Charters -- Tracking the serpent: Janine Pommy Vega -- Fast speaking woman: Anne Waldman.…”

Table of Contents: “…The message -- Lipsha Morrissey -- Solitary -- Lipsha's luck -- Transportation -- June's luck -- The bingo van -- Lyman's luck -- Insulation -- Shawnee's luck -- Mindemoya -- Fleur's luck -- Lyman's dream -- Religious wars -- Redford's luck -- Shawnee dancing -- Getting nowhere fast -- Lyman dancing -- Albertine's luck -- A little vision -- Gerry's luck -- Escape -- Zelda's luck -- I'm a mad dog biting myself for sympathy -- Lulu's capture -- Shawnee's morning -- Pillager bones.…”

Table of Contents: “…Jose Maria Arguedas: Entre Dos Aguas -- 6. That Fast Receding Towards the Past That Is Women's Future: "La culpa es de los Tlaxcaltecas." -- 7. …”

Table of Contents: “…What He Thought -- Tornado -- Lightning -- Window: Thing as Participle -- Curve -- Dry Time -- Seal -- Two-Legged -- Fast -- Coming -- Glimpse of Main Event -- My Shepherd -- Untitled -- The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary -- Eastport -- Well -- Unguent -- Some Kind of Pine -- Numberless -- To Go -- Connubial -- Prothalamion -- The Size of Spokane -- Auto -- Better or Worse -- Two St. …”

Table of Contents: “…The denial of death -- Cannibalism -- Mana and money, feeding and fasting -- Disguise, role-playing and honor -- Death, sex, and the body -- Sacrifice -- Clothing mortality -- Mortal clothing in Hamlet -- Immortal money in The merchant of Venice -- Part 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…From colonial days to the Civil War -- Joel Chandler Harris: Uncle Remus: his songs and sayings (1880) -- Albion Tourgee: Bricks without straw (1880) -- Charles Chesnutt: The conjure woman (1899) -- Thomas Dixon: The clansman (1905) -- From Jim Crow to the second reconstruction -- Howard Fast: Freedom Road (1944) -- Ann Petry: The street (1946) -- William Styron: The confessions of Nat Turner (1967) -- Alice Walker: Meridian (1977) -- Birth of a nation and silent film -- Hollywood's golden age and Gone with the wind -- T̀he death of Uncle Tom' (1941-1969) -- From Blaxploitation to The color purple.…”

Table of Contents: “…(a lament for those who think old) -- Your lead, partner, I hope we've read the same book -- The anatomy of happiness -- Invocation -- Everybody tells me everything -- Most doctors recommend or Yours for fast fast fast relief -- A clean conscience never relaxes -- I spy -- The politician -- Look for the silver lining -- A necessary dirge.…”

Table of Contents: “…High culture in low places : television and modern art, 1950-1970 ; Barbies without Ken : femininity, feminism, and the art-culture system -- Rewind and fast forward. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age : women's memories and television reruns ; Yesterday's future, tomorrow's home.…”

Table of Contents: “…Fredrica Wagman -- Imagining Jews -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or looking at Kafka.…”

Table of Contents: “…/ Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- Crypt ; An appetite for fasting? / Catherine Byron -- The Mahonys observed ; Married to the enemy / Eithne Strong -- From Anna Liffey ; The Irish woman poet : her place in Irish literature / Eavan Boland -- Apple ; Coming of age / Joan Newmann -- Night ; The poetry of what happens / Moya Cannon -- Crystal night ; Rescuers and white cloaks : diary, 1968-1969 / Medbh McGuckian -- Epilogue : poetry doesn't pay / Rita Ann Higgins.…”

Table of Contents: “…'Too easy, too cheap and too fast to control' : intellectual property battles in digital television.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cynewulf and his poetry -- 2 The authority of Old English poetical manuscripts -- 'Seasons of fasting' -- 4 The Beowulf manuscript -- 5 The compilation of the Beowulf manuscript -- 6 The Exeter book -- 7 Marginalia in the Vercelli book -- 8 Dialect origins of the earlier Old English verse -- 9 The publication of Alfred's Pastoral care -- 10 MSS. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- The apron -- Downcast eyes -- Purim players -- The musician's death -- The tailor's story -- Country holiday -- The joys of parenthood -- Luckless -- Lonely -- Shammai Rothman -- The sacrifice -- Two brothers -- The poor boy -- What the moon tells -- The fast -- How a hermit stopped being a hermit -- Yankel pessimist -- Weaver love -- The pond -- Log tales -- In time of plague -- In the post chaise -- The seventh candle -- The outcast -- Chanukah lights -- Good! …”

Table of Contents: “…Getting to rub two words together (Getting started with language) -- Catching fire (starting to make fast progress) -- Do we teach children to speak? …”

Table of Contents: “…Joy Adamson -- Louis Auchincloss -- Eileen Bassing -- William Peter Blatty -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Erskine Caldwell -- Truman Capote -- Bruce Catton -- Bennett Cerf -- Ilka Chase -- John Ciardi -- William Cole -- John Crosby -- Peter De Vries -- Maurice Dolbier -- Maurice Edelman -- Howard Fast -- Jules Feiffer -- Gabriel Fielding -- Ian Fleming -- John Fowles -- Gerold Frank -- Pamela Frankau -- Maxwell Geismar -- Genêt (Janet Flanner) -- Herbert Gold -- The Gordons -- Tyrone Guthrie, with an afterword by Bradley Morison -- Emily Hahn -- Margaret Halsey -- Sterling Hayden -- Ben Hecht -- William Inge -- Pamela Hansford Johnson -- James Jones -- William Jovanovich -- Victor Lasky -- Harper Lee -- Doris Lessing -- Arthur H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Stern [and others] -- A normal enough dog : Kafka and the office / Roy Fuller -- 'I always wanted you to admire my fasting', or, looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- A triptych for the jackdaw / Jerzy Peterkiewicz -- K. on the moon / D.J. …”

Table of Contents: “…A broader net ; Pound, Boyle, Hecht, and Stein ; Hemingway, Wilder, Sherwood, MacLeish, and Cowley ; Rukeyser, Herbst, Porter, and Fast ; Wouk, Cozzens, Mitford, Parker, Hammett, Hellman, and Lowell -- pt. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography: a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nik John -- From fasting to self-acceptance: Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard -- Spiritual talk: The Oprah Winfrey show and the popularization of the New Age / Maria McGrath -- Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin -- Phenomenon on trial: reading rhetoric at Texas Beef v. …”

Table of Contents: “…The stalking of Kristin / George Lardner Jr. -- 1994. First born, fast grown: the manful life of Nicholas, 10 ; The Mississippi reclaims its true domain ; Cruel flood: it tore at graves, and at hearts -- 1995. …”

Table of Contents: “…: questions of community, audience, and language in poems by Chrystos and Wendy Rose / Robin Riley Fast -- Of men and men : reconstructing Chinese American masculinity / King-Kok Cheung -- Rethinking class from a Chicana perspective : identity and otherness in Chicana literature and theory / Timothy Libretti -- Theory in the mirror / Renae Moore Bredin -- Mothering the self : writing through the lesbian sublime in Audre Lorde's Zami and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Like "reeds through the ribs of a basket" : native women weaving stories / Kimberly M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the moor and mountain crest -- As I gird on for fighting -- Her strong enchantments failing -- Oh hard is the bed they have made him -- The queen she sent to look for me -- I 'listed at home for a lancer -- In valleys green and still -- Soldier from the wars returning -- The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers -- Could man be drunk forever -- Yonder see the morning blink -- The laws of God, the laws of man -- What sound awakened me, I wonder -- The night my father got me -- He stood, and heard the steeple -- Star and coronal and bell -- The wain upon the northern steep -- The rain, it streams on stone and hillock -- In midnights of November -- The night is freezing fast -- The fairies break their dances -- The slow was lost in flower -- In the morning, in the morning -- He is here, Urania's son -- 'Tis mute, the word they went to hear -- The half-moon westers low, my love -- The sigh that heaves the grasses -- Now dreary dawns the eastern light -- Wake not for the world-heard thunder -- I walked alone and thinking -- Onward led the road again -- When I would muse in boyhood -- When the eye of day is shut -- The orchards half the way -- When first my way to fair I took -- West and away the wheels of darkness roll -- These, in the day when heaven was falling -- Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough -- When summer's end is nighing -- Tell me not here, it needs not saying -- When lads were home from labour.…”

Table of Contents: “…Walter Winchell : an American phenomenon / Dickson Hartwell -- Fast man with a gun [Carl R. Hellstrom] / Donald Robinson…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Tulips in the Prison Yard -- We Will Now Hear the World of God from Each of Our Beloved Chaplains -- One Prisoner Was Driven Mad: Let This Be a Lesson -- 8 O'Clock Morning Scence -- Socrates -- Billy Bones -- A Typical 6:00 P.M. in the Fun House -- The Risen Tin Can -- Con Cowan -- December 2, 1971 -- For Philip's Birthday -- My Father -- What is the Opposite of Charisma? -- When My Brothers Fasted for Me -- on the birth of dan goldman: a song of triumph -- One Tries Hard to Mean These Words -- Prisoners: One Only View -- Prison: A Place Where Death Didn't Quite Make It -- No one Knows Whether Death ... -- The Day the Humming BIrds Returned, and Why -- The Earth -- Skunk -- A Bit of History -- Flowers in Spite of All -- Memory -- We Were Poor Poor Poor -- Glory Be To God -- Uncle Sam, You're a Card! …”

Table of Contents: “…French tales / translated by Peter Rickard The goodman who saved another from drowning -- The peasant and his two donkeys -- The three hunchbacks -- The housewife of Orleans -- Brownie, the priest's cow -- The donkey's last wil and testament -- The peasant doctor -- St Peter and the minstrel -- The knight who won back his estranged lady -- Spanish tales / translated by Alan Deyermond -- The well -- The parrot -- The bathkeeper -- Booklearning and experience -- The debate of Greeks and Romans -- Pitas Payas, the Breton painter -- The youth and the millstone -- The drunken mouse -- The reluctant monk -- The timid lover's expedition -- English tales / translated by Derek Brewer -- Dame Sirirth -- About a man who acted in a play as a devil -- About a miller who stole nuts -- About the married men who came to heaven -- About the Yeoman of the guard who said he would beat the carter -- About the man who meant to have the pot stand where he wanted -- Why there are no Welshmen in heaven -- About the friar who preached against people who ride on Sundays -- Italian tales / translated by Derek Brewer -- Sir Bernabo commands an abbot to tell him four impossible things -- Lapaccio di Geri sleeps with a corpse -- Benghi goes to joust -- Matteo and the mouse -- A windy night -- Thrown into the drink -- German tales / translated by David Blamires -- The judge and the devil -- The three monks of Colmar -- The lover in the tree -- Returning the payment for love -- Three wily women -- The false Messiah -- The smith in the baking-trough -- Dutch tales / translated by Peter King -- Reynard and Chanticleer -- The King and Elegast -- Saint Brandane laughs heartily -- Medieval Latin tales / translated by Michael Lapidge -- Ruodlieb and Rufus -- Cambridge songs: -- The snow-child -- Alfrad and her ass -- The parson and the wolf -- Little Abbot John -- Pamphilus -- Medieval Latin anecdotes --The quarrelsome woman -- The deceit and cunning of old women -- The peasant and the sheep -- The English nobleman and his three sons -- The woman who greased the judge's palm -- The fox and the wolf -- The two companions -- Reynard and Tibert -- The demon and the robber -- The man who pretended to be dead -- The lawyer and a devil -- The Jew's daughter -- The bailiff and his wife -- Aristotle -- The blind man and his wife -- The fasting abbot -- The old woman who made a pact with the devil -- The adulterous wife -- The woman who met a priest --- The peasant and the ape -- Afterword. …”

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1: Classics -- Fables of the reconstruction: the four-hour Greed -- Fascinating rhythms: M -- The color of paradise: Jour de fête -- Backyard ethics: Hitchcock's Rear window -- Songs in the key of everyday life: The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- A tale of the wind: Joris Ivens's last testament -- Kira Muratova's home truths: The asthenic syndrome -- The importance of being sarcastic: Sátántangó -- Blush -- The ceremony -- Thieves -- True grit: Rosetta -- pt. 2: Special problems -- Malick's progress -- Improvisations and interactions in Altmanville, with an afterword: Nashville -- Mixed emotions: Breaking the waves -- Fast, cheap & out of control -- The sweet cheat: Time regained -- James Benning's Four corners -- Overrated solutions: L'humanite -- The sound of German: Straub-Huillet's The death of Empedocles -- Beyond the clouds: Return to beauty -- Reality and history as the apotheosis of southern sleaze: Phil Karlson's The phenix city story -- Is Ozu slow? …”

Table of Contents: “…Celine -- Robert Pinget -- Northern Europeans -- A Primal Modern -- Saddled with the World -- Scheherazade -- Brecht's Dicta -- Discontent in Deutsch -- Disaffection in Deutsch -- Calvino, Grass, Boll -- Metropolises of the Mind -- Card Tricks -- Readers and Writers -- Fish Story -- The Squeeze Is On -- Eastern Europeans -- Polish Metamorphoses -- Czarist Shadows, Soviet Lilacs -- Czech Angels -- Lem and Pym, Stead and Jones -- Lem and Pym -- Selda, Lilia, Great Gram, and Other Ladies in Distress -- Eva and Eleanor and Everywoman -- Some Nachtmusik, From All Over -- No Dearth of Death -- Dark Smile, Devilish Saints -- Layers of Ambiguity -- Stalled Starters -- Frontiersmen -- Barthes, Berlin, Cioran -- Roland Barthes -- Texts and Men -- The Last of Barthes -- A Monk Manque -- Poets -- The Heaven of an Old Home -- Alone but Not Aloof -- Owlish and Fishy -- Sissman's Prose -- Sissman's Poetry -- Three Poems on Being a Poet, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Stand Fast I Must -- Tales -- Magic Mirrors -- Fiabe Italiane -- A Feast of Reason -- Happy on Nono Despite Odosha -- The World Called Third -- African Accents -- Mixed Reports from the Interior -- Journeyers -- Raman and Daisy and Olivia and the Nawah -- India Going On -- The Far East -- Spent Arrows and First Buddings -- From Fumie to Sony -- The Giant Who Isn't There -- The Long and Reluctant Stasis of Wan-li -- Art and Act -- Gaiety in the Galleries -- Tote That Quill -- Wright on Writing -- Borges Warmed Over -- Pinter's Unproduced Proust Printed -- Suzie Creamcheese Speaks -- Female Pilgrims -- Long Views -- A Cloud of Witnesses -- Who Wants to Know? …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Texans: -- Barbarosa -- Best little whorehouse in Texas -- Neutered: -- World according to garp -- Officer and a gentleman -- Action: -- Road warrior -- Buzzers: -- Tempest -- Night shift -- Actors As Heroes: -- My favorite year -- Tex -- Le Beau marriage -- Up The River: -- Fitzcarraldo -- Burden of dreams -- Rice Krispies: -- Fast times at Ridgemont High -- Sweet hours -- Jinxed! …”

Table of Contents: “…Lieben -- Egypt, 1937 / Meyer Levin -- Heder / Henry Roth -- Rachel and her child / Myron Brinig -- Aarons / Edwin Seaver -- The fast / Edna Ferber -- Holy land / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Our fathers that begat us / Marvin Lowenthal -- Haunted cinema / Louis Golding -- Safe harbour / G.B. …”

Table of Contents: “…An attendant of al-Hallaj fasts for fifteen days -- 30. A vizier removes a dessert stain with ink -- 31. …”

Table of Contents: “…'Young men will love thee more fair and more fast' -- VIII. Flora MacIvor's song -- IX. To an oak tree -- X. …”