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...Soviets and the U.S. are already fully aware of one dramatic Martian occurrence. Since the end of September, astronomers have observed a dust storm on the planet. Spreading at the rate of 20 or 30 m.p.h., the yellowish cloud now obscures much of the planet's surface and is one of the most severe blowups ever witnessed through terrestrial telescopes. Some scientists are delighted with this rare chance of witnessing close up one of Mars' puzzling storms, which seem to occur when the planet moves closest to the sun and the Martian surface heats up. Others are equally...
This year Granatelli's corporate glory has vanished in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke. An article in last July's Consumer Reports criticized STP Oil Treatment, warned that new-car warranties might not cover damage from an overdose of the additive and sent STP stock tumbling from its high of 58. In one frenzied trading day last week, the stock fell from 331 to 22. It finished the week at 181. Reason: Granatelli announced that third-quarter earnings had fallen 69% below last year's level...
...best work, an effortless and lovely cloud of confetti about the decline of the sweet, the good and the pure, was called Trout Fishing in America. The main character was Trout Fishing itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...
...panic is an adrenaline that flows through many American novels. The hero's symptoms seldom vary. The taste of a stale marriage is on his lips. A run-of-the-treadmill job is under his feet. Falling hair is in his comb, and gray rather than great expectations cloud his eyes. Literary ways of dealing with this theme naturally vary. The approach chosen by Luke Rhinehart for his first novel is to consider the middle-age heebie-jeebies as a condition of the soul, angst-laden with boredom and despair...
Malle manages the technical side of his scenario with facility. There are funny moments in the classroom and at home when Laurent and his brothers torment the family maid. Malle, however, seeks to banish the Oedipal shadows that cloud his story by turning almost everything into comedy. Instead of forming an ironic counterpoint to the dark psychology of the story, safe and easy laughter trivializes it, stifling the pain of true recall...