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The swampy, semitropical wilderness in southern Florida called the Everglades lies in a peculiar bowl-shaped depression that was bound to arouse the curiosity of geologists. They concluded years ago that the distinctive cavity was probably formed over many aeons as ground water slowly dissolved a surface layer of limestone...
Simon's Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the...
The convention ended in a shambles of fisticuffs and name-calling. The apparent loser was Shamir, who failed to win a vote of confidence. "You'll never be Prime Minister!" shouted his opponents. Shamir insisted that he would not accept the post anyway if his party did not support him...
Because Begin refused to groom a successor within Herut, a power struggle at last week's convention was probably inevitable. Shamir, bolstered by a letter of support from Begin, who remained in seclusion at his Jerusalem home, won the first round when a Shamir loyalist, Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav...
The showdown would have come in the third round, which pitted Shamir's candidate, Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens, against Levy for the chairmanship of the convention steering committee. Instead, the convention ground to a halt when Sharon tried to pack it with 200 pro-Sharon and pro-Levy delegates...