Word: breaths
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Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos [ WORLD, Dec. 16] does possess one extraordinary ability: to speak out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. At one moment he says his military forces would go it alone, "preferably" without U.S. military aid. In almost the same breath, he admits his decision to call elections was "in part" due to U.S. pressure. Ignacio Javier Hollywood...
...firm to get around the ponderous Peking bureaucracy and speed China's economic development. Led by Rong, 70, a silver-haired millionaire, the organization has helped foreign companies invest in everything from beer production to coal mining and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars overseas. "CITIC is a breath of fresh air," says Virginia Kamsky, president of Kamsky Associates, a trade consultant with offices in New York and Peking. "The people there ask the right kinds of questions when you present a project, and when you talk about return on investment they understand what you mean...
...speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin . . . The first thing I needed was extraordinary breath control"), documents and anecdotes. Accompanying photographs range from the Big Band and bobby-sox eras to the film comeback in the mid-'50s, the "Only the Lonely" albums and a restive retirement. On the trajectory, four marriages and innumerable crises leave indelible marks on the face and style. At one taping he finally...
...reversal of family history in which "the man marries the daughter in order to be able to continue more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting lovers." In one breath, this relationship could mean that the novelist's father was the Czar's bastard son. In the next gasp, the possibility is dismissed on the ground that Alexander had another mistress at the time. There is solid evidence that Nabokov was a randy young adult and had at least one serious...
...monstrous solipsist or, as a contemporary describes him, an "entirely new specimen of the race." The novel's emphasis on the sense of smell is disquieting, given the deodorizing proclivities of modern life: "The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it." And those readers who feel they are wasting their time with novels unless they are picking up facts will welcome Süskind's encyclopedic overview of the methods of making perfume. Like the best scents...