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Gloves vanish off radiators, goggles disappear from snack-bar counters, boots are bootlegged before they have dried out, lift passes are torn right off par kas. Poles are stolen so often that skiers drag them to restaurants and rest rooms, hide them under the bed at night...
...mother-of mankind, also divine child, also martyred divinity. In these terms, Mandala becomes not a dense literary puzzle but an obscenity. Arthur, the shaman of Sarsaparilla, is too monstrous to think upon: quack religion and genuine psychopathology are mixed up. White has written a mystery play in drag...
...cruel dictator; the narrator, owner of a deserted luxury hotel, is carrying on an affair with an ambassador's wife; the action is a network of plots and violent encounters with the sinister secret police, climaxing in an unachieved revolution. But the book is deadly dull. The characters drag through their parts listlessly, like unconvinced actors, hardly caring what happens to them. Events pile up without meaning or suspense. Graham Greene has written some exciting--and meaningful--books. What went wrong with this...
...first one-page mailorder "catalogue" in 1872, carries men's high-topped shoes for $12.97-but it does a much faster business in "bold, British-inspired demiboots" for teen-aged boys at $9.77. For the folk-singing set, the catalogues offer guitars at up to $219.95. "Super Stock Drag Tires" are available at $34.80 apiece. Sears last year introduced a 64-page special catalogue of imported-car parts, saw the entire 200,000-copy issue snapped up almost immediately. The home furnishings lists have been upgraded, now include double-door refrigerators, solid state hi-fis, print and pastel...
Vellucci declared that the dispute over manager had become a "drag 'em out ... dog eat dog" battle, and proposed that the nine councillors convene privately and agree to let Curry stay on until a suitable successor had been found. The DeGuglielmo majority voted this proposal down, and later, when Councillor Mahoney made a similar motion, it was also defeated...