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...What reader will have eyes for mild, muddled Myles when confronted with a clutch of scene stealers like these? Lou Doxiades: an amateur philosopher with the soul of a benign procurer who imports waiters from Athens for Boston restaurants. And Dr. Petkov: a Bulgarian scholar who has spent his life preparing, but not writing, a biography of Chester A. Arthur...
Varney and junior Skip Freeman were starters at offensive end last fall, and their clutch performances throughout the season and in the Yale game, in which they scored 14 of Harvard's 29 points, mark them as a threat equally as strong as the Crimson's ground game...
...consistently picks the most efficient curb-shearing line around corners, which gives him an extra jump into the straightaway. At Silverstone, he crashed his car during a trial run, and had to race in a slightly inferior model usually driven by a teammate. On top of that, his clutch jammed on the fourth lap and he was forced to powershift for the remaining 80. Yet his average speed of 127.25 m.p.h. was nearly 10 m.p.h. faster than the existing track record-set in 1967 by Clark...
...with their children without losing either their cool or their kids. A clutch of paperback "budget" guides are aimed at people who want to believe that they can travel abroad more cheaply than they can live at home. The opposite extreme is represented by A Millionaire's Guide to Europe, which is full of advice on how to behave as if you owned that rented Spanish villa. Or how to fly a private jet around the Continent, or hold a party in a rented windmill...
...once endlessly old and miraculously preserved, as if they were waiting for a revelation. Death of a Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th century, stallions mix with horseless carriages and Mazda bulbs compete with gaslight. The contrast of periods is minor compared with the clutch of anachronisms offered by the script. Among them: police brutality, strained race relations, the lowly role of the Jew in society, adolescent sex, and finally the message, delivered by the county sheriff: "Frank Patch is your conscience, and you're afraid...