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...Seven-Ups, a follow-up to The French Connection, offer mystical explanations for their characters' violence. The heroes never shoot anyone who isn't guilty, although they lack evidence for their target practice; we are asked to believe that they have acute powers of perception unknown to lesser cops...
...mood another way. "In many ways," he said, "it's a thinking man's election. The floating voter so crucial to victory is having trouble making up his mind. I'm afraid that for most of them it looks like another case of voting for the lesser of evils...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris...
...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers also have died. The Vietnamese fatalities since the cease-fire exceed the total number of Americans killed in the course of the war (45,941). "What we have here," observed one of South Viet Nam's top military officers, "is simply a lesser degree of war. We're tired. We'd like to relax. But the question is whether we can afford to relax, and so far the answer...
...when we get the classic epic from the monster's point of view. And in The Sunlight Dialogues, self-parody pops up in thoughts such as "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot." Veracity has been one of Gardner's lesser concerns; he has made it clear he has been out to make his own little verbal world...