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...foregoing his opportunity, as perhaps the best-informed observer of the affair, to propose answers to moot questions and to make judgements on the players and the action of the drama. One wishes he had written the novel, or at least darned the holes in his account with novelistic thread...
...treasure. The loot is a lampoon of Western culture: hundreds of picture postcards that juxtapose Ava Gardner's face and an Ingres nude, Volkswagen factories and the pyramids. In the end, the soldiers are themselves consumed by the anarchic "peace" that follows victory in which sound trucks thread the littered streets blaring, "Our enemies are democrats, Marxists, Jews...
...advantage by permitting the talks to be held in a disadvantageous setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, was seated on a chair markedly lower than the one used by his North Korean counterpart, and thus was compelled to look up to his opposite number...
...epic battle. Hour after hour, while day turned to night and night to day, Clarke and the great fish fought it out at opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel...
SCHOENMAN'S eyes blink as he praises Russell. "There have been various changes in his thought, but also a thread of consistency--his opposition to arbitrary authority and his defense of the oppressed." He denies that Russell is senile, and lists "this Renaissance man's" current projects: the second and third volumes of his autobiography, an "updating" of the New Testament (based on current events), a book of epigrams, and adaptations of his short stories for the stage...