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...King's Indian, the title story, is a much longer and more complex pastiche. Shanghaied aboard a whaling ship, young Jonathan Upchurch is forced to play Ishmael to a crazed Ahab of a captain. The ship's quest is not for a white whale but, as Upchurch slowly learns, for the mysterious duplicate of itself, reported sunk on its last voyage. Is he surrounded, then, by ghosts? Or is the captain out to smash determinism by carrying his ship safely past a meeting with its foreshadowed self? As adventures and mysteries multiply, a third possibility begins to appear...
While Moynihan tells Save-the-Whale-like rallies...
...Whales, as every alert conservationist knows, are a clearly endangered species, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 prohibits bringing any part of a whale into the U.S. To inquiries about whether the President had personally brought back one of the whalebone souvenirs, a White House aide replied firmly: "I'm sure...
...dumbbelle at King Richard's Court, she recounted her fall from favor. Bored at Camp David, she had wandered off looking for a book, strayed into the President's (empty) bedroom, then fell asleep on his bed. After that, she said, assuming the expression of a wounded whale, "bad things happened to Martha." She was playful with Woodward. "Come on," she teased, "you voted for Richard Nixon in '68, didn't you?" A ruffled Bob admitted it. Bernstein huffily remarked that there was such a thing as the secret ballot. Later, Martha jumped into Carl...
...cattle industry. They urged the retailers to cut prices further to move meat off the shelves and into shopping baskets. Retailers indicated that they would cooperate, and Butz tried some sales promotion of his own. In a deliberately mixed-up metaphorical exhortation to consumers, he exclaimed: "Now is a whale of a good time to stock your home freezers with beef...