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Anyone who is still stuck on the question of who killed Laura Palmer is hopelessly out of date. There are so many other, newer conundrums in the secret-infested town of Twin Peaks. Like who is the one-armed man and how did he really lose his arm? What was the relationship between Laura and the creepy psychiatrist, Dr. Jacoby? What has Hank Jennings got on Josie Packard...
Seth Morgan began writing this first novel during a prison term for armed robbery. The cuff marks show, and not just in detail that seems accurate. The novel is funny and fast moving, but its air stinks slightly of decay. As it should. A couple of Nelson Algren's low-life adventures come to mind, such as A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was a better writer and a more lyrical artist, but Morgan is better acquainted with dead souls...
...return from Washington. But Robert Polhill, 55, a professor at Beirut University College who had been abducted and held for three years and three months, was in fact turned loose on the streets of Beirut at the start of last week. His freedom did result from a combination of arm twisting and blandishments by Iran and Syria. And these surprising turns point to a new constellation of forces gathering in the Middle East, potentially favorable to U.S. interests -- above all, to the return of the seven Americans and 14 citizens of other Western nations still held captive...
...disgusting. What happened to their integrity, to our bond of mutual sexual frustration? Why am I the only one not walking arm in arm, locked at the lips with someone...
...problems are more than budgetary. Since 1988 it has been conducting a public relations campaign in the Soviet media to eradicate its decades-old image as the repressive arm of the regime. KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov depicts the agency as the lawful and benign upholder of justice, the supporter of perestroika as well as the country's first line of defense against domestic and foreign threats. KGB officials, for example, argue that the agency is the state's primary weapon against organized crime, and that as much as 80% of the agency's forces are engaged in the battle against...