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...CONDOR PASSES by Shirley Ann Grau. 421 pages. Knopf...
Even Shirley Ann Grau's best novel, The Hard Blue Sky, is very casually plotted. But she can write with a poet's concentration and record dialect knowingly. Perhaps The Condor Passes is merely an attempt to join the mainstream-as the South is now supposed to be doing-and to market all that distilled violence nationally. Still, there is richer life in the bayous than in the mainstream. One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue...
...fares already in effect. Lufthansa officials also claimed that they want to lower some rates even below those now proposed by I.A.T.A. Should the high basic rates of scheduled carriers remain in effect, however, Lufthansa is in a strong position to become a major charter carrier. Its charter subsidiary Condor was the first such firm to buy a Boeing 747 jetliner, and it will soon have a second...
...blue afternoon sky above Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, a thin red line grew from the roof of One Oliver Plaza, a 37-floor office building. Twisting and looping in the stiff wind, the thing looked like a string of huge frankfurters seized with the ambitions of a condor. In fact, it was a 1,500-ft. red polyethylene tube, filled with 4,500 cu. ft. of helium. The line rose over the skyline and began to dance, guided by twelve men straining on guy ropes on the roof far below. One link tore off as the wind lashed...
...husband. The way Ewa remembers it, Guillermin made matters worse by saying he could not understand her modesty and telling her, "You're no better than a whore." Bystanders kept her husband from Guillermin's throat, and Ewa dropped out of the cast of El Condor in a fury. "If the producer wants a show girl, he should contact one," she said. "It would be much cheaper for him all around." Ewa had previously objected to two "superfluous" skin bits in the Spanish western, one a bed scene with Jim Brown and the other a nude...