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...birch and poplar. Thirty yards away, the great golden eagle launched itself from its master's gauntleted arm and swiftly closed the distance. The hare zigzagged desperately. No use. Flashing 20 ft. overhead, the eagle gave a sort of shrug and folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with its reward: a tidbit of fresh meat...
Unchecked desire, suggests Dumitriu, spirals darkly downward into chaos, madness or murder, and he illuminates the descent with passages of coruscating prose. He clearly intends his book to be an acid analysis of decline in the West, but U.S. readers will more likely find it just another well-wrought urn in the fashionable temple of despair...
...three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from the facade to the ground below; now Congressmen and visitors have...
...squinted when a rock-'n'-roll band moved onto the beach and began blasting away in the hot afternoon sun. Then, in quick succession, giant, helium-filled balloons took off skyward, a red smoke bomb exploded, and from a plane overhead four hired sky divers plummeted downward. The doings brought crowds running from all along the beach, but Kaprow was unhappy: "I was looking for more surprises, and everything came out very orderly." It almost didn't. Two of the parachutists missed the beach by a wide margin and landed in the ocean, and suddenly...
Since February, the market has mostly fluctuated downward. Now it would plunge by as many as 16 points in a day. Now it would steady, now twitch nervously upward?only to fall again. Market analysts, always ready with reasons, have exercised considerable imagination in explaining the day-by-day declines. Thus, on May 31, industrials dropped 12.97 points, and analysts said the trouble was a peace scare based on rumors about Viet Nam truce talks. On June 29, the average fell 9.30 points, and the drop was attributed to a war scare because the U.S. was stepping up its bombing...