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The novels of Thomas Pynchon seem to take place in a vast, unfathomable cyclotron. Characters, ideas, metaphors, styles, pains, ecstasies, assorted objects from the Pyramids to paper clips all whirl about at enormous velocity. They collide, split into new forms, or suddenly decay, leaving behind only enigmatic smiles.
In Robert Aldrich's excellent The Flight of the Phoenix (1966), an ill-assorted group of renegades, soldiers, businessmen and misfits were marooned in the middle of a desert, their sole hope of survival being to somehow piece together their crashed plane. Steelyard Blues more or less rips off...
For six weeks, Willwerth visited record industry headquarters, meeting pop music's promoters and star performers. Record companies, he found, can be ruggedly zany. "All the ingredients of a carnival are there: clowns, hucksters, mystics and assorted crazies-all sniping at each other with popguns in an atmosphere of...
Tainted Union. Meanwhile, a campaign for clemency was organized. Assorted allies called on White House aides and the Justice Department. Political support was recruited, petitions signed. There were three requests for parole, and three times the board unanimously voted no. Then President Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, and the...
Most appeared to be happy, though, as they walked out with assorted souvenir'., including stacks of plastic cups embossed--with the Inaugural seal.