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...flashiest section of Kim's text is his discussion of the linguistic equivalent of the calligraphic inversion--the palindrome, a word or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. Starting with the most familiar type of palindrome, at the letter-level ("Able was I ere I saw Elba" is the best known of these), Kim goes on to write about word-palindromes (his example is "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so") and, most fascinating of all, phonetic palindromes, which sound the same run backwards through a tape-recorder ("we revere you" and "ominous cinema...
...Cove Point plant is only one leg of an immense project known as El Paso I. The other leg is a terminal now under construction at Elba Island, near Savannah, Ga., that this summer will begin taking in 350 million cu. ft. of liquefied Algerian gas daily. The two terminals together will receive 1 billion cu. ft. a day, a rate sufficient to heat the homes of 9 million Americans...
...that not many stars other than Eastwood and Reynolds are currently doing. Wayne, Stewart and Fonda, last survivors of the generation of giants, have become old men despite our most imaginative efforts not to acknowledge that dismaying fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his South Seas Elba, a character actor in search of characters he can knock off in a month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they...
...fleet of nine newly constructed LNG ships owned by El Paso Natural Gas Co. will begin carrying gas from Arzew, Algeria, to Cove Point, Md., and Elba Island, Ga., early next year. That gas, for which El Paso signed a contract before the Arab oil embargo, will sell in the U.S. for about $1.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., v. a top federally controlled price of $1.44 for domestic gas shipped across state lines and $2 or more for uncontrolled intrastate gas. Algerian gas bought under a postembargo agreement, however, will cost Americans...
...taking seriously the idea that Jimmy Carter may get the nomination. Their reservations to date are proper. Yet their swiftly changing attitude toward "Wee Jimmy" (Reston's phrase) recalls at least the first phase of how Parisian journalists treated Napoleon in the 20 days after he escaped from Elba and landed in France: "The monster has escaped from his place of exile." "The Corsican werewolf has landed at Cannes." "The tyrant has reached Lyon." "The usurper has dared to advance within 150 miles of the capital." "Tomorrow Napoleon will be at our gates." "His Majesty is at Fontainebleau...