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...object of all this enmity is an attractive, green-eyed woman named Sylvie Keshet, the most influential and widely read columnist in Israel. Her twice weekly column in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz (circ. 50,000) is called "An Arrow from Sylvie's Bow," the title being a play on her last name, which is Hebrew for bow. More often than not, Sylvie's arrows are dipped in venom. Her columns have twice prevented prominent politicians from being appointed to the Cabinet. Now, she says with a twinkle in her eye, most of Israel...
...Cambridge Draft Board. When the march entered. the policemen in the Square were very few-and very scared. Marchers seemed almost stunned by the fact that they were alone in Harvard Square. The sound truck, having shepherded the marchers safely to the target, turned and scooted down Arrow...
...Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried or sunk to avoid trouble with the police...
...pour into the canoe, ton after ton, never ending." Part of the book's charm comes from Dickey's knowledge and love of the outdoors, of guitar playing, of archery. Dickey also manages an overwhelmingly graphic description of a man shot through the chest with a hunting arrow and slowly dying...
...with wings (an accessory, incidentally, commonly found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more erotic than sentimental. Typically, the heart symbol, if it survives long enough on the wall, gets further embellishment; someone adds an arrow, and then later another resourceful artist converts the heart into a rude approximation of the female posterior...