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Many astronomers took a dim view of the event, partly because most sites for observing totality were inaccessible, partly because they expected heavy cloud cover to prevail in high latitudes, and also because nowhere did totality last longer than 2 min. 35.6 sec. Moreover, scientists are divided as to the value of studying eclipses. The Young Turks in the field say condescendingly that it's an old man's game, an occasion for repeating familiar experiments. The old hands retort that there is still much that can best be learned during eclipses. Even if they are repeating experiments...
...mutilating operations. His once eloquent speech was impaired, and he wrote to a colleague, "My way of eating does not permit any onlookers." The close fit of the prostheses produced sores and pain, relieved only by aspirin and locally applied analgesics. Freud was opposed to drugs that might cloud his mind...
...essential part of Jagger's act is his vulnerability. He is a butterfly for sexual lepidopterists, strutting and jackknifing across the stage in a cloud of scarf and glitter, pinned by the spotlights. Nonresponsibility is written into his whole relationship with the audience, over which he has less control than any comparable idol in rock history; Elvis Presley, who can still tune the fans up and down like a technician twisting a dial, is the opposite. Jagger's act is to put himself out like bait and flick away just as the jaws are about to close...
What might trouble the Republican serenity? First, there is a credibility gap, an atmosphere of taint that reminds some observers of the last years of the Truman Administration. The cloud of ITT is in the air. So is the Republican refusal to disclose the names of those who poured $10 million, quite legally, into the G.O.P. war chest. The bugging raid on the Democratic National Committee headquarters fosters a nagging suspicion...
...over the city, from St. Cloud to Montparnasse, from Place d'ltalie to Belleville, there are signs of building, burrowing and bulldozing. Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean...