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UNDER THE COLORS by Milovan Djilas. 557 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
BEING THERE by Jerzy Kosinski. 142 pages. Harcourf Brace Jovanovich...
There was a certain nostalgia in the episode, a glimpse of the 19th century days when Washington was a more crudely physical place-the brawling floor of the House was called "the bear garden" and Vice President Martin Van Buren wore a brace of pistols to preside over the Senate. In the terms of Charles Reich (The Greening of America), this was not even Consciousness I, but Consciousness ½. A day or two after the Boggs-Mitchell match, the former's House colleague, Edward Hebert, telephoned: "Hale, Hale, sign nothing! Don't do a thing till...
PARADISE by Patrick Dennis. 336 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...matter where Antoine goes he is haunted by the brie-a-brace and human beings that form the junk-heap of his society. As in 400 Blows, there are garbage cans and arguing couples at every turn. As in Stolen Kisses. he constantly meets up with the dead and the lonely harbingers of his own doom. In this case there is a recluse in his apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion...