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Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh. Neither U.S. nor Soviet researchers can duplicate Fleegle's feat. But both sides have long been working on weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend...
...Pezzettino (Pantheon; $4.95), Leo Lionni manages a feat of Klee: his collages and swirls of paint evoke the sensations of childhood. Pezzettino is a minuscule symbol, and all his friends are large, adventurous ones-until the boy sails off to the isle of Wham. The result is a pleasing metaphor for growing pains, and a consolation for that temporary period when the very young are dwarfed by parents, siblings, and sometimes life itself...
...Sometimes they are written by people who said it all the first time around. Woiwode's novel is not one of these. Woiwode's first novel, What I'm Going To Do, I Think, won the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the "most notable first novel" of 1969. This feat would not be so noteworthy if the similarities between Woiwode and Faulkner were not so striking. Woiwode's story of the lives of a family in the Midwest, told from different points of view and from different narrative modes, is at times a haunting reminder of The Sound...
...said that the climbers who made it to the summit felt a distinct emotional letdown after their feat...
...word "sidelines." A driven man, he is always sympathetic in his relentless hungering after the lights of Broadway. When Minahan is on stage--which is most of the show--he is absolutely riveting; the excitement he projects virtually swallows up all the other characters. It's an amazing feat, especially since Minahan, though a capable dancer, sings with more vigor than melody. In the end, though, the supreme conviction he brings to his role is what counts...