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...modernization. Bureaucracy runs rampant, to the point where getting a small corridor painted requires hours of cajoling the bumbling and infantile painters, and assuring them that their fine workmanship is not going unappreciated. Actually saving a life proves all but impossible. One elderly patient undergoes an enthusiastic bout of fits and seizures while the hospital orderlies argue with a nurse over the incentives necessary to convince them to wheel away this ailing charge, who has had the audacity to collapse at the end of a shift. Anderson has a gift for such comically macabre scenes: while the pale...
Nevertheless, expert dialogue sustains the novel. Sample the glib openness of Parlabane, whose career has included a bout as a gay, sado-masochistic academic (at Princeton, no less), a stint as a drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...
...surprisingly short match, McNerney jumper out to a 14-0 lead before scoring a pin at the 2:40 mark of the bout. Humbling one formidable opponent after another, McNerney then handled Randy Conrad, the powerfully built Big Eight Conference Champ from Iowa...
...points out that "the audience we tried to attract through pay-per-view is people who don't go to the movies." Such one-shot pay-per-view events have been staged before with mixed results. The most successful was 1982's World Boxing Council heavyweight title bout between Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney, which drew 30% of its potential pay-per-view audience. Last year's showing of the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies drew a less than spectacular...
...doctor told me to give up tennis and to take up bridge," Princeton professor Enoch Durbin said, recalling his desperate bout with tennis elbow. But quitting proved unbearable for Durbin. Instead, he applied his knowledge of physics and mathematics, acquired during his 28 years as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to produce "The Durbin," a tennis racket aerodynamically designed to compensate for mis-hits and thereby guard against tennis elbow...