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...truth was, all that chiming rhyming and irritating alliterating were so much flimsy whimsy, which is to say a triumph of the arch, which is to say an exercise in self-consciousness-raising. It was so precious that it was not worth attacking, even as a boiler of pot. Maybe the professor was no more of a long-distance runner in the publishing world than in Boston. In which case the book pointed up a moral (always a comfort to critics). For all its talk of riches, it was really about poverty-of invention. Thus it could be considered...
...there seemed to be at least two, since blazes were set almost simultaneously on different floors. A besieging army of 200 uniformed policemen, detectives, sharpshooters and volunteers soon surrounded the motel. As the cordon tightened, the assailants found refuge behind the concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about...
...deep in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The snow is more granular and less plentiful in the East, where the air is wetter and the mountains smaller than in the West. Eastern slopes are also icier and thus harder to negotiate. Yet skiers who practice on this Eastern "boiler plate" learn of necessity to dig their ski edges deeper into the hill and tend to have better control. The quality of the snow at most European resorts lies somewhere in between the West's powder and the East's iciness. European ski areas are generally...
Renovations include a new boiler plant, new windows throughout the building, new carpeting in the rooms and hallways, and the replacement of most of the old kitchens. Hall said that the contractor also rewired the building, replaced some plumbing and bathroom fixtures, and installed a buzzer and sprinkler systems. The building is air-conditioned...
...floor leaders, each responsible for several states, had a principal deputy in every state delegation. Moreover they were linked by telephone to McGovern's communications trailer, parked outside the convention hall, and to the candidate's "boiler room" at the Doral Hotel. McGovern Aide Rick Stearns briefed all the McGovern delegates for two hours before the convention, then spent another two hours instructing his 250 whips?one for every six McGovern delegates. Said Stearns: "We feared procedural chicanery...