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...deeper and darker up this river that snakes through the jungle like a bird--the "silly little bird" of Heart of Darkness--trailing like a serpent. Mahler's dense harmonic texture surrounds the flow, but does not stagnate it. Joseph Conrad, a riverboat man himself, especially in his Malaysian period, would have liked this bastard child as much as a trip...
Sergeant Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) is a ham-hock-faced man in his 50s with a gentle disposition, a teenage girlfriend and an absurdist's command of the bureaucratic vocabulary-"Be reminded: female officers will, according to policy, perform all in-depth searches of female suspects." Howard Hunter (James Sikking) is a SWAT man with a Patton complex; he shoots his way into liquor stores and out of toilet stalls, and warns his boss that "you wouldn't want to be accused of having a bunch of daisies where your cinch belt ought to be." Detective Mick Belker...
...five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned 40 copies of Values Clarifications...
...consumers that we are exposing ourselves to another great grain robbery by the Soviets, and the price of food in this country would go through the ceiling." World food stocks are now unusually low because of a combination of poor crops and rising demand. Chicago Grain Analyst Conrad Leslie believes lifting the Soviet grain embargo would lead to 18% to 20% price hikes for commodities such as meat, corn, beans and wheat in the U.S. this year, rather than the 12% to 15% increase now expected...
...Conrad D. Snowden, associate provost at Princeton University, said yesterday Princeton plans to support the scholarship program. "Princeton is concerned for the status of South African students in general, in particular Black South African students," he said, adding, "It's a matter of conscience to respond to a situation [apartheid] that the university finds abhorrent...