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...once for fun and a second time for enlightenment. Read's seven earlier novels received critical praise but not the commercial popularity of Alive (1974), his nonfiction account of a plane crash in the Andes and the ordeal of its survivors. This book may bring his fiction the wider audience it deserves. Like his countryman Graham Greene, Read mixes espionage and religion, dishonesty and faith. His novel jangles the nerves and lingers in the mind...
...only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend...
...ENTIRE ALBUM suffers from any comparison to the first album Boy and it deals with a wider variety of rhythms and melodies in songs like "Ocean" and "Electric Co." October has some additional instrumentation, but sticks more to the now-established formula. People forgive a lack of innovation in traditional folk music, but the rock world is faster paced, and failure to generate new ideas could spell out a group's doom, a problem in particular for New Wave groups who deal with a more limited range of permissible rhythms...
...troubles that have brought the proud, highly civilized and immensely accomplished Poles near the brink of social chaos and economic collapse are both deeper in their origins and wider in their ramifications than the many problems that beset the industrialized democracies of the West. In Poland, the system is not just failing to perform properly - failure is built into the system. Communism stifles the best while rewarding, or at least exploiting, the worst in human nature. Imagination, initiative and man's natural inclination to improve his own lot have all been sacrificed to the abstract and deceptive goal...
...began tinkering with the idea of a bigger racquet in the early '70s. Head, a typical hacker, became frustrated with his frequent off-center hits which would cause racket and wrist to turn, spraying the ball awry. Reasoning that the laws of physics dictate that the wider something is, the more resistant it is to twisting. Head figured bigger might be better. After some years of labwork, he devised a racquet with a "super" sweet spot-- the elusive point where the entire swung weight of the racquet is laid squarely on the ball and the racquet becomes an extension...