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...next morning. I was exhausted, he seemingly as fresh as ever. "I must let you get some sleep," I mumbled. He threw back his head and laughed. "I've already had my sleep. Now I'm going to work." His night's rest had been a cat nap before dinner...
...yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles of it-to prevent corrosion. Three years after one of history...
...their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book's easygoing charm. Looking at Long Boy with his floozy, she observes that "he got that silly, dazed grin like a torn cat being choked to death with cream." Like that extravagant expression, the book is a long, tall, oldtime tale. But as Addie might put it, in the right hands that kind of yarn has a lot of prance left...
...polite reaction to this news would be to smile at human folly and hope that M. Sabet's Persian cat sharpens its claws on something else. On the other hand, the episode was more redolent of Louis XVI's time than the mere style of the table would suggest. Sabet's excursion into le goût royal cost the equivalent of the collective income of 1,260 of his fellow Iranians, who earn an average $330 or so a year; and with it the creak of imaginary tumbrils with real collectors in them grows a little...
...Cat-Sized Rats. With every reason to feel just great, why did she look so puffy and strung out? "I'm flabbergasted by the reviews," she told TIME'S Brad Darrach. "After eleven years, I can't believe it. But you know, doing that part -it changed my life." Her voice broke. "It made me realize. So much. That poor girl I played in the picture had been so used. Always attracted to the same kind of man, and each man destroyed her. She was like a little puppy dog. No matter how much you beat...