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...NOTES brought Exley critical acclaim and a few literary awards, but not the fabled pot at the end of the rainbow. A bit miffed and fifteen thousand dollars in debt. Exley began another book, hoping to cash in on his newly acquired reputation...
...Camiel. Phillips offended both factions by allying himself with neither and prosecuting malefactors in both camps. Though he has obtained indictments against six cops, he has also bagged numerous state and local officials who have been charged with offenses ranging from bribery to extortion to theft of public property. Fifteen members of the state department of transportation, including the regional superintendent in Philadelphia, were charged with submitting pay vouchers for hours they had never worked. To date, a total of 42 individuals have been indicted. Seven have been convicted or have pleaded guilty; none have been acquitted...
...start of the game was delayed for about fifteen minutes as the ground crew corrected an error in the lining of the crease and Crimson mentor Bob Scalise said he thought that was partially responsible for Harvard being so flat in the first quarter. "We're an emotional team and when we were forced to wait before the game it snapped our concentration," he said...
Life is not a farce for the chocolate cream soldier, the enlightened man who leads life "sensibly," or as Raina says at first, "with a low, shop-keeping mind," without staking itself to any lofty principle. Fifteen years of experience in war has taught Bluntschli that the most important principle is to save one's skin, and when the mortally offended Sergius ("Our romance is shattered") demands to meet him at sundown with his sabre, the Swiss submits bluntly that he will bring a machine gun. Clark plays the chocolate cream soldier competently if monotonously, as a debonair impostor...
Around the Bend in 80 Days is only good. It is a six-part slight exaggeration about Perelman's 1971 trip along the route taken by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. (Fifteen years ago, Perelman wrote the film script for the Mike Todd spectacular.) Perelman's traveling companion was not Passepartout but a 6-ft. 1-in. "toothsome cupcake" named Sally-Lou Claypool. Aboard H.M.S. Choleria, 19th century British sang-froid bunks amiably with the 20th century cynicism of a hornswoggled American tourist...