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Transported to China, Hathaway watch es rice farmers Maothing revolutionary rubrics, has an interview with the chair man - a benign, ping-pong playing chap - and cons his way to the secret for mula. All the while, beeping and honk ing, he is being tracked like a satellite, his pulse rate and adrenal flow monitored back in England by a one-eyed, three-star general (Arthur Hill...
...intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust, often whimsical in tone, and maddening to the government. Though radicals rallied around him, he refused to be lured into politics. As he once said: "I always preferred to tell the other chap what...
...sure that the chap who opened the left-handed shop in London last year won't make a go of it. I would guess that the majority of left-handers would have a hard time learning to use something designed just for them either because 1) they have learned to use most things as a right-hander would, or 2) they have learned to use things in their own gauche-appearing...
Strutting Peacocks. Sapone's flourishing trade belies the image of the painter as a rather threadbare chap. The younger and more impecunious may seem indifferent toward clothes, but the more prosperous often prove to be strutting peacocks. Before Sculptor Jean Arp died in 1966, recalls the tailor, "he would walk through a party in Paris, twiddle with his lapels and say to people, 'Sapone, eh oui, un Sapone!' " The definition of un Sapone varies widely...
...strange, unfriendly world. Young Balthazar's only male friend throughout his introverted existence is a chap named Beefy. An aristocratic orphan whose real name is also Balthazar, Beefy seems to be the protagonist's alter ego. Beefy is boisterous, tough, brawling, and given to priapic pranks. Starting with Beefy's expulsion from school for being a self-confessed "magnificent masturbator," their shared adventures-sometimes poignant, often comic-turn into wretched disasters...