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...when the need arises, as it so often does. Their conversation is spare and broody and liberally sprinkled with dots: "I lack the . . . the stamina . . . yes." Along the way the cliches mount, crowned by the blatant use of children's deaths to prod the action toward some kind of climax; otherwise Sin would be a serial. Here's hoping the other six vices are not on Hart's agenda...
True to the title, Patrick takes the easy way out. It isn't very admirable. McCauley builds the climax with the ingenuity of an experienced comic novelist. Curling through the book has been the saga of Patrick's efforts to get a Harvard professor and his secret mistress a scarce reservation in Bermuda. After the kind of sure but wayward plotting that marks the work of David Lodge, Britain's master of academic foolery, it turns out that Patrick gets to enjoy the booking and the island's velvet sands -- with Arthur a thousand miles north...
...lads. He experiences perverse satisfaction on one occasion when he is included in the Red Brigade's order of battle. In the crowd riots at the World Cup in 1990 he is mistaken by the Italian police for a ringleader and beaten senseless. It is a punishing climax to an eight-year quest...
...overwhelm the feeling of elation that the summit was taking place. "This event is focusing world attention back on the environment as the most important issue of our time," said Russell Mittermeier, president of the Washington-based Conservation International. Activists see the summit not as the climax of their crusade but only the beginning. (See related story on page...
Their dream is free land, but before they can attain it -- in the Oklahoma land rush that is the movie's smashing climax -- they must endure a long, penniless passage in the Boston slums, where they live as brother and sister in a rented whorehouse room. They're the only residents unable to assuage their sexual itch, and, madly sublimating, Joseph becomes a bareknuckle boxer in a sporting club. It is here, at its center, that Far and Away takes its biggest chances, for this section is dark and claustrophobic and concludes melodramatically with Shannon near death and Joseph carrying...