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Keneally's narrative has the short, brutal rhythm of the ax, each stroke glinting with images of hallucinatory brilliance (in a flash of revulsion against his aboriginal brethren, Jimmie imagines "a vineyard of gallows from which hung all the inept, unfortunate race, emphatically asleep"). Occasionally, Keneally overheats his language, invoking the pull of blood and the core of blackness in a way that recalls D.H. Lawrence in a rant. But most of the time the novel's intensity arises naturally from the dualities that throb at its center -black and white, crime and punishment, civilization and savagery...
...Rosenthal, assistant to the president of Supermarkets General, which operates Pathmark, says: "We get all kinds of people late at night or early in the morning-couples unable to shop together during regular hours, or the wife who trusts her husband to baby-sit only when the kids are asleep." The added cost of increased hours has generally been minimal. Explains Ralph Krueger, vice president of Allied Supermarkets, which manages Arlan's: "It doesn't add much to our labor expense because we must have people in to stock at night anyhow. Certain other expenses, like rent, remain...
After the untidy fumbling, McGovern's acceptance speech that night might have been reassuring to some members of the party?and might have won him some new sympathizers nationally. The trouble was that most of the nation was already fast asleep by the time he spoke. As the delegates met, another long parliamentary struggle broke out over whether the convention should adopt party reform rules immediately or, as McGovern wished, wait until 1974 in order to avoid undue offense to party regulars who would be displaced by a new, expanded Democratic structure. McGovern prevailed...
...challenger would make. Surprisingly, Fischer stayed up half the night drafting the demanded letter with the help of his lawyer. Then, according to one of Fischer's friends, Bobby and the lawyer went to Spassky's hotel in the wee hours to deliver the message. Spassky was asleep. Undaunted, the Americans persuaded a bellboy to open the door to Spassky's room and they tiptoed in, placed the letter on the desk and tiptoed out. In the letter, released later that day, Fischer offered Spassky "my sincerest apology" for "offending you and your country, the Soviet Union...
...done nothing to curb addiction. In Japan, on the other hand, authorities stamped out an amphetamine epidemic after World War II by instituting and enforcing a series of tough regulations: legal use of amphetamines was restricted to the treatment of just one disease (narcolepsy, which makes its victims fall asleep constantly); only one doctor per hospital was allowed to handle these drugs; and heavy prison sentences were imposed for possession and peddling-thus preventing both abusers and sellers from spreading their "disease...