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...novel itself is divided into four movements corresponding to the parts of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "The Eroica." (Beethoven originally dedicated "The Eroica " to Napoleon, but tore up the dedication after the First Consul of France crowned himself Emperor.) At times the Burgess Bonaparte resembles a cross between Charles de Gaulle and Douglas MacArthur. At times he is an 18th century Mafia capo trying to manage overextended holdings and control his greedy relatives. Burgess seeks to evoke the heaving spirit of the Napoleonic age by rouging (and noiring) the historical facts with catchy dialogue and fantasy. As he points...
...battle-battered partisans were being passed over the heads of the crowd to waiting ambulances. Fearing such violence, Perón had warned ralliers not to show up with their factional signs. Yet leftists unfurled defiant banners to make their presence felt. They succeeded only too well. Enraged rightists tore down the banners and attacked...
...Monday, for example, a powerful explosion tore the western wall from a 24-story office building in Manhattan, injuring more than 90 people. Witness after witness told of smelling gas fumes before the explosion, and the city's fire commissioner called it "highly probable" that a weekend buildup of gas caused the blast. Con Ed automatically issued a statement denying that gas, which it provides for the city, was involved...
...years later, The Times, breaking with its policy of selfcensorship that had served the nation so badly at the Bay of Pigs and in the early years of Vietnam escalation, tore a page from the style books of the Old Mole and the Crimson and published its own set of stolen documents. The Pentagon Papers set off a chain of overreaction in the White House that eventually destroyed Richard Nixon and his clique, as surely as Pusey's overreaction destroyed...
...blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that he was going to make it only when his aide, Ira Tucker Jr., knelt down next...