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...economic crisis were not enough, London was hit last week by a new series of letter and car bombings. The first incident occurred when Brigadier Michael O'Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition...
...nights a week at 9:30, Charlie Douglas sounds two beeps on a truck horn, and thousands of truck drivers on the road all over the country cock an ear. For the next 7½ hours, over WWL, a clear-channel New Orleans radio station at 870 on the dial, they can hear not only country music but business information that could be vital. Two years ago, Disc Jockey Douglas-who has never driven a truck, but was fascinated by the big rigs that rolled through his boyhood home of Ludowici, Ga. -sold WWL on an all-night program beamed...
While dismissing Poland as "the most tiresome question," Churchill told Stalin: "At present each [Great Britain and the Soviet Union] had a game cock in his hand." When the translator explained the double meaning of Churchill's remark, Stalin retorted with a coarse Georgian sense of humor: "It is difficult to do without cocks...
Turcotte never even bothered to cock his whip-which means transferring it from between the last two fingers and the palm to the working part of the hand. Who needed a whip...
Boorman concentrates on the hard-core how rather than the obvious why. The reasons for men's actions in such extreme predicaments are clear, and do not need some sort of metaphysical explanation. The few lines remaining which echo Dickey's cock-eyed pantheism are mouthed by a character, the film's Lewis, who's close to caricature anyway. (All the book's characters are generalized in the film, and we don't know the last name of any or their occupations.) The difference between Boorman and Dickey is best summed up by the director's depiction of a moral...