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...argument. As a man steeped in the virtues of "Sunday clothes" and educated in a military academy, he is not unmindful of tradition or innocent of the doubts he has stirred. But his long march across the nation to the presidency led him to believe there is a new drumbeat out there and he is more in step than a lot of others...
Line one of Chapter 1 consists of three of the Italian language's least printable words, strung together in a scatological drumbeat. The chapter then depicts Antonia, the 16-year-old heroine of the story, masturbating as she falls asleep. In the course of the next 185 pages, she and Rocco, her 17-year-old boy friend, sample a farrago of sex, including sodomy and homosexual affairs. But sex is only one of the reasons that the novel Winged Pig* has become a sensational bestseller in Italy...
Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...belief is widespread, though not unanimous, that it will probably hit bottom in three or four months. Summed up Donald C. Miller, executive vice president of Continental Illinois Bank: "Over the past ten days or so, we seem to be picking up better feelings, some end to the steady drumbeat of bad news...
...recession is now 15 months old, and it is growing bigger and meaner all the time. The urgency of the debate now under way in Washington over how-and how fast-to turn the economy around was underscored by a drumbeat of bad news about falling production and shrinking profits. But of all the measures of the nation's deepening economic problem, none was quite so stunning as last week's report of a scary 8.2% unemployment rate in January...