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Larson has nothing to say beyond his clumsy rerecording of the facts, which, by now, are the least important thing in our concern or nonconcern about Ted Bundy. Larson's fearfulness to speculate at all about what constructed Bundy's grim mechanism, his complete unwillingness to risk saying anything amounts not just to mediocrity but immorality--a failure of nerve typical of the quiet neutrality of American society's herd spectatorship...
...grim game of war that is frequently played over the North Atlantic, a giant Soviet TU-95 Bear reconnaissance plane last September zoomed across the invisible line that marks the U.S. defense zone off Iceland. In five minutes, two American F-4 Phantom II interceptors zoomed up from Iceland's Keflavik Airport to draw alongside and escort the trespasser out of the forbidden Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Last week the U.S. Air Force released a remarkable set of pictures of the interception, photographs so sharp that the faces and gestures of the Soviet crewmen were visible...
Most regrettably, the year is winding up as it began: interest rates are rising, the pace of price increases is accelerating, and a growing chorus of experts and officials is warning of a downturn dead ahead. The grim prospect is of an inflation-weakened economy struggling to recover from recession, only to be knocked flat all over again by tight money and high interest-a possibility that would make 1981 as big a policymaking headache for Ronald Reagan as 1980 has been for Jimmy Carter...
...Keith always plays with a tenacity, a grim determination, and thus sets a pace that one can follow in practice and in games," club president Kip McKenzie says...
Nicholas is a typical young Dickens hero. Steadfast, upright and much beleaguered, he struggles to maintain a life for his sister and newly widowed mother against the unexpected threats and grim incursions of greedy uncles, sinister aristocrats, crooked politicians and assorted malefactors. He holds down a variety of jobs-perhaps most memorably as an actor playing roles like Romeo in the provincial acting troupe of Mr. Vincent Crummies-but his employment is continually being interrupted by some emergency, as the plot loops round, over and back again on itself...