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...perhaps tree sloth (to match her elaborate false fingernails), but she settles on a coat with pelts worked in next year's pattern, a sort of scallop effect resembling a Queen Anne façade. In case she ever sets foot outdoors, she buys a coyote ski jacket. She seems sorry not to have spent more than $8,000. Her husband, waiting at one of the glass-topped tables along the edge of the room, appears only incidentally interested, knocking the ash off his cigar as he signs the order...
...Atlas, transformed by foreign crises from a 97-lb. weakling into a muscleman whose wishes had to be respected. Said House Democratic Floor Leader Jim Wright of Texas, using a different metaphor: "Members who 60 days ago considered Carter an albatross around their necks now consider him a life jacket...
...songs from the only band that matters," and though that rings of promotional hype, the Clash have never been a band to go along with hype. They've played a little trick on their promoters, andtackedanother song to the end of their double album without listing it on the jacket, or telling the guys who wrote the ad copy. That's the keynote for the music on this album: it presents a world gone slightly askew and takes a sort of grim joy in pounding the disturbing discord home...
...ONLY portraits in The Generation of 1914 are on the front cover. Behind the jacket lie minor intellectuals drowned in polemics over the presentation of history as influenced by generation. The result is a book more aptly titled Intellectual Views of Generation...
...seventies. All you could want and more, if you can take it--the struggles and reactions and hatreds and dirty deals to on and on. "Did we really do such terrible things to the Left?" Richard Heilbroner implores in his promotion blurb on the back of the book jacket. Yes, Richard, we really did, according to Lader, who has blended public records with personal interviews, oral histories, diaries, letters and unpublished reporters' notes to come up with what is probably the most exhaustive and exhausting chronicle of the Left in the United States since Senator Joe McCarthy first curdled...