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...roomate is aplying for a Rhodes scholarship. He has affected a British accent and will eat only kippers for breakfast. He addresses everyone as chap or my good fellow. I think he's full of shit and I'm ready to kill him. Is there a particularly British way of killing someone? Damn Yankee...
...interlocking alliances have threatened the simpler traditions of mateship and the bush. There, the wounded Kate finds honest work as a barmaid at Murchison's Railway Hotel in a place called Myambagh. She acquires a flair for pouring beer, a taste for fattening food and a liking for a chap nicknamed Jelly -- not because of his shape but because he has a way with the explosive gelignite. Amid what Thomas Keneally labels "a safer Australia . . . where people called lunch dinner and dinner tea . . . and cooked on wood-burning stoves which had belonged to their grandmothers," Kate discovers "a pulse something...
Sportsman's Paradise is set in the sleepy Long Island resort of Orient Point, which has been discovered by Southerners who have moved North. This time the heroine is a Collier herself, and she carries a torch for a moody chap named Hobby Fox. She thinks of him as a burnt-out case -- "courtly and windblown and stoic" -- but in his 36 years he has been a major-league ballplayer, a New Orleans prosecutor and the foreign editor of an important New York City newspaper. What story there is gradually reveals the couple's past affair and tells...
...MAXWELL'S ALIVE! The Sun, a British tabloid, suggests that he might be hiding in South America while some other large chap rests in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. The Guardian states, "The Spanish authorities have no evidence other than the word of his family that the body pulled from the sea . . . was that of Mr. Maxwell...
...schizophrenic action of Increased Difficulty of Concentration centers around the befuddled Professor Huml (Tom Hopkins), Eddy to his lovers, of whom he has many. He is a lascivious chap, and most of the supporting cast is women with whom he is, or wants to become, involved. A central theme of the work is his diminished genius as a result of his numerous involvements. But his genius seems magnified by comparison when a bizarre crew of social scientists arrives at his home, and alternately bakes and refridgerates the computer equipment the crew calls Pazook...