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...hopes that Bulliet has an extremely active imagination. If not, if the book's plot has some basis in fact, then the machinations of national intelligence communities pose a serious threat to the precariously perched Persian Gulf regimes. Indeed, Bulliet says in the book's jacket notes, "At the present time, the likelihood of a major crisis developing in the Gulf region is very high...
...combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater because "we have to consider those big bouffant Texas hairdos. You can't expect clients to have to drag their furs over them." A dyed gray beaver jacket, with collar, pockets and cuffs furrowed like a plowed field, is "ideal for Mrs. Bowing." (All names have been changed to protect the unsuspecting.) "She sure can't say she's got one, and she can't say her mother had one just like...
Slow Learner, a collection of five short stories written and published while the author was in his early 20s, has no photograph on the dust jacket. Pynchon fans have come to expect that. The book does offer one major surprise: a 20-page introduction that amounts to Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography. Yet for all the apparent candor of these remarks, buyers should still beware. Pynchon criticizes the young writer he once was on a number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts...
...meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood by driving a tractor and cuddling a piglet with black-and-white markings. Said he: "Our pigs tend to be bigger and pink...
Covello described the suspect as a Black male with a medium build and short afro, approximately 30 years old, wearing and olive green jacket and olive green shirt with dark pants...