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Adams is absolutely first-rate at making the reader feel the river mist on his face, feel the brush of wet leaves across the skin of arms and thighs, or smell the stench of a sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...
...around, Kerr aims at teaching viewers to eat better for less. "I'd like to recommend a list of four priorities for eating better," says the recycled Gourmet. "We must concentrate on the emotions, the sciences, the economy and time. Whatever we prepare must look good, taste good, smell good and save money without making the home cook a house slave...
...smell defeat," said pro-monarchist George Geogeoppulos, a retired army officer, after seeing the first returns. Defeat it was. By an unequivocal margin of 69.2%, Greece voted to abolish the monarchy that has ruled the country since 1833. At his home near London, exiled King Constantine, 34, disconsolately watched the televised election results mount against him. Meanwhile, thousands of his jubilant countrymen converged on Athens' Constitution Square to celebrate the birth of their nation as an "uncrowned democracy." Constantine now joins the small but select group of unemployed European monarchs (see box). In a brief statement of concession...
LINEBACKERS: Rod Shoate, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 1 in., 213 lbs. A good tackier with great range who can smell out the play-action pass, then hit the receiver like Rocky Marciano. While Shoate was anchoring their defense, Oklahoma held opponents to an average of 8.7 points per game...
Despite that hatred, some brave Australians are now coming to the defense of the wild dog. "The dingo is a magnificent animal," says Film Maker Lionel Hudson, who praises it for its intelligence and highly developed senses of sight, smell and hearing. Hudson advocates domesticating the dingo and putting it to useful work-tracking down lost people and criminals or sniffing out drugs in baggage. In Victoria, a group is seeking government permission to breed and show the species...