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Safety Cage. Bricklin thought he could succeed by selling a car engineered primarily for safety. The Bricklin had retractable bumpers designed to absorb collisions without damage at speeds up to ten miles per hour, roll bars that made the passenger compartment a kind of safety cage, and gull-wing doors...
Scott is very much a psychological novelist, and the great length of his work (2,000 pages) is not a matter of kilometers of canvas and barrels of paint. The final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are...
It is characteristic of Scott that he stages this violent scene without showing the great sweep of the plains and with no view of the exterior of the train, the mob, the blood, the bodies or the long knives. Instead, he shows the interior of the dark and shuttered first...
Some have literary antecedents. The Mellors Model, for example, takes its name from the randy gamekeeper in Lady Chatterley's Lover. D.H. Lawrence makes no mention of secret panels but, reasons Krotz, "Lady Chatterley must have hung her dress somewhere to avoid telltale wrinkles." The somewhere is a secret...
The politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built...