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...property speculator during the flush '60s, he has been left teetering near bankruptcy by the collapse of land prices. His friend and financial adviser, Len Wincobank, is serving a four-year prison term for fraud. Kitty Friedmann loses a foot and her husband in a random terrorist bombing. Keating's lover, Alison Murray, has a teen-age daughter jailed for reckless driving in a Balkan Communist state. "England was a safe, shabby, mangy old lion now," she mused. "Anyone could tweak her tail...
...They were not random hallucinations, the wandering visions of a weakened mind: shot through though they were by grotesque sexual obsessions, they were highly rational constructions, artfully designed not only to be coherent in themselves, indestructible by obvious fact, but also to corroborate other, earlier, now threatened figments of the same mind...
...volume encyclopedia should be bigger than a breadbox and smaller than the British Museum. By these criteria, The Random House Encyclopedia (2,856 pages; $69.95) triumphs. At almost twelve pounds, it may be too cumbersome for bedtime perusing, but at least a forklift is not required to hoist it to the pillow. And the R.H.E. is consistently light in tone. Its editors and the 800-plus others who worked on the book have assembled more than 3 million words, but they have also inserted nearly 12,000 color illustrations to brighten the load...
...means a kind of battle to please the master. I don't imagine this change will make it any easier to make the transfer process fair." John W. Hastings, master of North House, said Monday. Possibly to avoid this type of competition, some masters have decided to choose randomly among applicants similar to one another under Spence's criteria. To make selection easier. Spence will provide each transfer applicant with a random number...