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...this year from Nixon's hand-picked candidate, Representative George Bush. Nixon failed to carry Texas in either 1960 or 1968; the state's 26 electoral votes could be the difference between winning and losing in 1972. By luring Connally to Washington, Nixon could win a strong protagonist or at least neutralize a potential antagonist in Texas Democratic politics. Said one Washington Democrat: "To my dirty mind, this appointment means only one thing: the start of 'Democrats for Nixon...
...best-known paintings, which depicts a deer skull with vast antlers hovering above a range of hills, is From the Faraway Nearby; it reflects her gift for telescopic and microscopic sight. On one hand, her work is obsessed with landscapes-as-epic, landscape as an active protagonist, exerting the immense dumb power of its presence on human intruders. "Those hills!" she exclaims, in front of a canvas of 1944, Black Place III. "They go on and on-it was like looking at two miles of gray elephants." In fact, her love of epic scale (although her paintings are startlingly small...
...dishonest messages. It is about a man who attempted an elaborate fraud, went slowly insane, and then apparently committed suicide-written with considerable perception and evident care. Crowhurst's widow cooperated with the authors, who refuse to condemn the all too common weaknesses of the book's protagonist, though their text unfolds with the precision of a district attorney's summation to the jury...
...protagonist is a late-model Amis antihero, middle-age division, of the type first launched in One Fat Englishman. Irascible and hypochondriacal, Maurice Allington runs The Green Man pub outside London, drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics...
...Desani, the author of All About H. Hatterr, has led a life nearly as interesting as the one he created for his protagonist. He lived for nearly two decades in monastaries throughout the Orient; he was for a time a journalist in India, and he recently served as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. If he hadn't stopped writing, he might have given us some masterful examples of a difficult genre, the comic novel. Whether or not he ever writes again, though, All About H. Hatterr will guarantee him a loyal group of readers...