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...territory west of the Emerald Isle and south of the Canadian commonwealth, users of the dreaded "u" intend the letter to bespeak Old World sophistication and disdain for the intellectual squalor of the former colonies. Colour has the weight of Empire behind it; color is a graceless contraction...
GOLDMAN RANGES over and explores all these cultural "influences" with a superb critical imagination. But he examines them directly and concretely in terms that bespeak familiarity rather than scholarly distance. And he discovers them embedded in the day-to-day encounters and imaginative responses that made up Bruce's life. Bruce's life, his work and days, not the order or development of Goldman's critical ideas, provide the chapter-by-chapter organization of Ladies and Gentlemen. The book proceeds as a reconstruction of that life out of masses of interviews and recollections. It draws as well on Goldman...
...Nothing and everything," Holmes assured him. "The white rim of Alka-Seltzer around your lips informs me of your gastric distress; the dark circles under your eyes broadcast sleeplessness; the shiny knees of your trousers bespeak prayer in the office...
Most of these steps--and others, such as strict gun control laws--have some value, and they all bespeak commendable concern. But none of them would have prevented the murder of Ethel Higonnet a block from her home at 5:45 on a Saturday afternoon...
...NEPTUNE FACTOR dives several leagues under the sea with a sleek submersible that is hunting for a party of stranded aquanauts. The members of the crew and anxious onlookers up top include Walter Pidgeon, Yvette Mimieux and Ernest Borgnine, variously outfitted in starchy white smocks that bespeak technical competence or clinging T shirts that display reassuring reserves of sexuality or brawn. But Ben Gazzara, captain of the Neptune, appears in blue oxford shirt and cranberry cardigan, as if he had suited up for a Sunday brunch. Gazzara further emphasizes his distance from this whole sodden scientific adventure by remaining resolutely...