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...England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical son, honoring...
...wish I were going with them," says Lock Keeper Bob Walker as he welcomes the Peckinpaugh to Lock 21. "It gets kind of lonely here in the fall." Glad for the company, Walker seems in no hurry to lock the Peckinpaugh through. A barrel-shaped man, he stands at the side of the lock chatting as the water pours out, dropping the boat a full 26 ft. He and the Peckinpaugh's crewmen talk like neighbors who have not seen one another for a while. Walker reports that the man who used to be in charge of the next...
...ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Algeria lambasted their Nigerian colleague for helping to set off the crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore his country's petroleum price or to cut its production target "by even one barrel." Said he: "Oil is the life of Nigeria. The Nigerian heart must pump...
...Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity": a singer of homely New England scenes, "full of complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy." Then, shortly after Frost's death in 1963 at age 88, his friend Lawrance Thompson began publishing a three-volume biography; inadvertently or not, it replaced the cracker-barrel sage with a monster. Thompson piled up a chronicle of "jealousies, obsessive resentments, sulking, displays of temper, nervous rages, and vindictive retaliations" that threatened to eclipse even Frost's jauntiest lyrics...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee should Charles Percy, the current chairman, lose in Illinois, Hunt supporters are saying this latest action belies his protestations. The implication in all this is that Jim Hunt will concentrate on doing what he has done for the past eight years-bringing the pork barrel home to North Carolina...