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...think of them as individuals. Shuweifat is dead still; the apartment houses are still; the alleys like alleys in a painting. Suddenly there is a barrage of gunshots from the Phalangist side, but no one and nothing is hit. The P.L.O. soldiers return the fire. A skinny cat runs for cover. A chicken rapidly crosses the road, answering at least one question. More gunfire, then silence. Ahmed must return to the others. He hesitates before saying goodbye, then goes off with his comrades, trotting back for a moment to hand his visitor the badge from his cap. He apologizes that...
Then there is the matter of vocabulary Shakespeare's Falstaff says. "I am melancholy as a gib cat or a lugg'd bear." But Coe's Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost...
...Beat System joins an innumerable legion of schlock paperback gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school...
Benny drove up in his Mercedes. As the car pulled away, Teenager could see Gigi and Victor with their heads against the seat backs. Teenager began to think of a place to get rid of the guns. Then, like a bored cat, he began to lick the blood from his hands...
Vice President for Administration Joe B. Wyatt said last week. "The plant is not going so represent a financial drain" when it begins operating. Although Wyatt declined to make projection on when-if ever-NATEP would begin to cat away the huge red splotch it created on Harvard's general operating account, the prospect of cheap diesel power indicates that the debt will not grow so rapidly in the future...