Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucid moment, Author Arnold explains on the dust jacket that "the marrieds are like apples. Some shed their peel, that they may be closer. Others keep their peel but sacrifice their core on the altar of love. Some can live this way. Some-like Gus-are reduced to applesauce." In the abstract sense, right...
...forward insistently. The camera is tight on Clint Eastwood as he chews his cigar, clips a sentence, tips his hat, swallows soup. The concentration creates a giant out of a so-so Rawhide type. At the final confrontation with his enemies, Eastwood appears out of a cloud of dynamite dust...
...This novel tells a story with a beginning, a middle and an end," the publishers note hopefully on the dust jacket and, surprisingly, they are correct. Though the book contains some formidable obfuscations and heavy-handed symbolism. Peter Israel writes sharp well-paced prose, and he has constructed his story as skillfully as a good mystery writer. What he has written, in fact, is a metaphysical mystery in which psychiatry plays the role of an enigmatic sleuth...
...genesis of its own existence as an earth satellite. With monotonous regularity, scientists have punched holes in theories that the moon was torn, Eve-like, from the earth's side; that the earth and moon condensed simultaneously, as neighbors, from the same blob of primordial dust; or that the moon was a planetary interloper accidentally captured by the earth's gravity. Says Nobel Laureate Chemist Harold Urey: "All explanations for the origin of the moon are improbable...
...passenger Viscount, the Merriweather, then transported by limousine, launch and canopied cable car to her rustic aerie. The living room is furnished with stuffed bears, a cigar-store Indian, beaded rugs, totems, the war bonnets of Sitting Bull and Geronimo-all of which takes two servants four hours to dust. Each guest is assigned a cabin with one butler and one maid...