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The volume's title and its prevailing horse theme pose more problems. Townshend never included his horse fetish in his music, so why does he choose to rhapsodize over the animals in his prose debut? The last chapter, "Lagune. Valentine's Day, 1982," is an imagistic digression extremely reminiscent of...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

After an initial uncertainty about his career plans--and a sojourn in Paris as in Fullbright scholar--Bok decided on a career in teaching, and embarked on scholarship in labor law, an endeavor that was sidetracked temporarily in 1968 when he was named Law School Dean. That administrative digression was...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Beyond the Mass Hall Mystique | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

But the real ending consists of the next five minutes, with Prince and nothing else at the limelight--an appropriate conclusion for a movie that, in spite of occasional digression, is an extension of Prince's persona.

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Singing in the Rain | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

A man is not just a woman in funny clothes and a jock strap. They don't think the same, except about things like higher math. But neither are they an alien or inferior form of life. From the point of view of the novelist, this discovery has wide-ranging...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Voice of One's Own | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

Cross-examination is interrupted for a digression from the sponsor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Goaded Fight Back | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

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