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...PRETENDERS: LEARNING TO CRAWL (Sire). Music for dancing along the jagged edge...
...with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that someone who can fly has to crawl across a shaking floor instead of flying across...
...while technology races ahead, history slows to an incremental crawl. Nuclear weapons may eventually make it possible for history to race ahead--imagine, say, the Palestinian Liberation Organization or the Irish Republican Army secreting nuclear bombs in suitcases. But it is no profundity to note that, for the moment, atom bombs have slowed the possibility of significant world changes to a slug's pace...
Their correspondence is elaborately courtly, full of solicitude. Churchill gallantly pretends to be deferential on matters of strategy: "We wholeheartedly agree with your conception . . . We cordially accept your plan ..." Roosevelt urges relaxation: "Once a month I go to Hyde Park for four days, crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after me ... I wish you would try it ... Lay a few bricks or paint another picture...
...sidewalk, waiting to be put into place, and the cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering such criticism, Bartholomew's predecessor as Ambassador to Lebanon, Robert Dillon, pointed out that the security measures in effect last week had at least prevented the bomb-laden car from reaching the embassy building...