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...novel takes place about twenty years from now, in a large English manor where four English aristocrats (one with a fear of losing his teeth), three dissolute Americans (including a nymphomaniac and a Timothy Leary type), one whore and one dwarf have gathered for a weekend of debauchery. Given the strange passions of some, sexual ambivalence of others, and a wide range of futuristic drugs, it is not surprising that Amis is able to generate more than two hundred pages of sordid situations...
...challenge from agri-power. No new farm bloc has formed on the Hill because the new food equation embraces everyone from Wall Street bankers to the hired hand. But if the various interests in food can find common ground, the pressure that such a lobby could bring would dwarf anything seen in the capital...
...measure of American priorities that Paul Bunyan never served a day for raping Mother Nature. He became, in fact, a hero, his exploits serving as the wishful equivalents of a developing technology whose bulldozers, logging sleds and chain saws would eventually dwarf the feats of any legendary giant. Compared with the James Bay Development Corp., for example, Bunyan might have been playing in a sandbox...
Later on, Rosenstein tried a short workout in the minigym that Greene has in his garage, but soon found that playing with Mean Joe's outsized bodybuilding gear was only good for "developing a dwarf complex." None of these considerations trouble Sport section Senior Editor Martha Duffy, however. Her favorite athletes happen to be race horses. They can usually be watched from the safety of a warm clubhouse and need never be interviewed...
...reader vaguely recalls a lovely term for a mirage-something Italianate. He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana. "Midget or dwarf leads to homunculus. "Ecstasy of a religious nature" brings forth theopathy. "Misstroke or misplay" discovers foozle...