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MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries...
...target in sabre fencing is the whole front of the body as well as the upper third of the back. Touches may be made with the blade, as well as the point of the sabre. Therefore, sabre play tends to be flashier and more exciting to watch than is fencing with the other weapons...
...center. He does not point; he does not posture; he does not underscore. But as he pokes through the dusty closets of memory, Taylor conjures up ghosts that will continue to walk abroad in the reader's imagination long after the dust of indifference has settled on his flashier contemporaries...
Though Monk's career has been painful and often thankless, it has also been a tortoise-and-hare race with flashier, more ingratiating men?many of whom got lost in narcotic fogs, died early in squalor and disgrace or abandoned their promise, to fall silent on their horns. Monk goes on. It is his high philosophy to be different, and having steadily ignored all advice and all the fads and vogues of jazz that made lesser musicians grow rich around him, he now reaps the rewards of his conviction gladly but without surprise. He has a dignified, three-album...
...this presumably meant that Pont intended to liven up Yale's offense by instituting a new passing game, more wide running, and a flashier overall attack...