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...STORIES are pieces which fit together to form one composite and complex picture. Martone commands a style well-suited to this type of writing often manages to cross the border which separates prose and poetry, thanks to his fine eye and ear for detail and his effective use of evocative imagery. Long roads, Shiny cars, pearls and falling bombs appear and reappear-sometimes as characters in their own right. Suggestive images are the chief vehicles of expression; dialogue is absent, and even the speaking, external voice is rate. In this silent landscape, only isolated single phrases are whispered or shouted...
...fact, even in the last few weeks, Percy has been busy redefining himself. When Chicago Mayor Harold Washington endorsed Simon, Percy argued that the Black mayor had adopted a "rascist appeal." The senator threatened to turn a deaf ear to future pleas from the Mayor and Chicago for federal assistance. A few days later, Percy revealed that he actually "loves" Mayor Washington, "loves" Chicago, and that he will do everything he can to help the city...
...exhibit of some 800 gold shields, swords, necklaces and handicrafts that will be on display through March. The King, who was last in New York in 1969, observed that the city "has grown bigger, with many more buildings, and is cleaner." The mayor obviously did some whispering in his ear. -By Guy D. Garcia...
...have one chance at life," he says, staring around a Paris watering hole, "and I'm not going to waste it on a big house and a new car every year and a bunch of friends who want a big house and a new ear every year...
...their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased. Then they will be decanted into the bazaar of postcards, datebooks, scarves-everything but limited-edition bronze ashtrays in the shape of the Holy Ear-that the Met provides as a coda. Finally, laden with souvenirs like visitors departing from Lourdes, they will go home. Vincent, we hardly knew...