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...number of near car accidents and several mentions of death, fear of dying and "the arc of a life." In the real world, both tragedy and joy occur in smaller doses than in Garp's universe. The film, like Irving's novel, occasionally seems somewhat fantastical and distant as a result. But every time a romance or a killing becomes too outlandish. Garp beams, or bellows, or frets, and his fear once again reminds...
...conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party. The one real surprise in the election...
There are also the numbers, statistics like measured mile markers, flashing along a dawn drive toward a still distant reckoning. There were 301 women state legislators in 1969, 908 in 1981; 5,765 female elected officials in 1975,14,225 just four years later. And yet, those 908 legislators are only 12% of the members of state legislative bodies. Only 19 of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are women, only two of the 100 Senators...
...that might succeed in bringing about a greater feeling of concern about nuclear war in the Soviet Union." Still, the day when 700,000 people gather in Red Square to oppose nuclear weapons, as they did in New York City's Central Park last month, is probably as distant as ever...
...Soviet Mi-8, Mi-24 and Mi-6 helicopters appeared like a horde of bloated locusts over the green fields and mountain streams. The jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush, the mountain chain that rings the valley, muted the roar of the bombing, making it sound like distant thunder...