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Other terrorists, however, carried on their random strikes. Near Milan a masked gang announcing itself as Red Brigades forced its way into the Italian subsidiary of Honeywell Corp. and set fire to a storehouse, destroying $1.1 million in electronic equipment. That attack followed a "kneecapping" (the technique developed by the I.R. A. in Ireland of shooting at the legs) of an Italian executive of the Milan branch of Chemical Bank of New York. The violence has caused some members of the international business community to think seriously about security. Said one Western diplomat in Rome: "I know more than...
...vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...
...make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo has decreed that much of the movie's crucial dialogue be drowned out by either rock music or random background noise. Perhaps lip readers will be able to judge the merits of FM's actors, who include Martin Mull, Michael Brandon and Eileen Brennan...
...life. Levinson says he chose only men because he did not want to introduce another variable in his study--and since he could therefore only study one sex he opted for males because he wanted to understand himself better in the process. He makes no claim to obtaining a random sample; he is interested only in seeing if a similar underlying pattern exists at all. Like Jean Piaget studying the thoughts and feelings of his own children as appropriate examples of all children, Levinson holds with the theory that men are made of the same basic stuff. If this...
...EIGHT SIN by Stefan Kanfer Random House; 288 pages...