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...Marcos has begun to realize, student violence is only the visible shark fin of a dangerous, antigovernment mood. It feeds partly on old resentments, real and imagined, against American business domination of the Philippines, and partly on some specific grievances against the President. Filipinos are increasingly cynical about Marcos' 2,000,000-vote margin of victory in last November's presidential campaign-a feat that they quite reasonably believe could only have been achieved by widespread vote buying. They fear, moreover, that his pre-election spending on roads and school buildings has brought the nation to the brink...
...comedichameleon, the old pun gent himself." The punning and the aesthetic trinity of Evelyn Hilary, the fictional "I" and Miss Brophy herself persist with vengeful logic to the very end. There, on the last page, the author signs off with a drawing of a fish with the word fin on its fin. Does it mean the end, or does Miss Brophy expect us to follow indefinitely in Finnegans wake like so many gulls...
...machine, and you don't go charging around. So you have got to plan ahead while taxiing. But once it's airborne, it's absolutely superb." Halaby took the 747 through high-altitude stalls and a series of landings and takeoffs. "You become integrated with the ship. That big fin and so much rudder contribute to stability and control." The plane was so bulky that he found that it seemed to dwarf the runway. Landing, he reported, was "like training for carrier landings." When he taxied back to the hangar, the feeling was "like docking a patrol boat?...
...regular contributors at the time. Looking back on it all, on James Agee's parody of the Saturday Review. on The Advocate's politics in 1938 when they issued a ballot in Latin from their Bow Street offices, on the memoirs of Eliot haunting the Sanctum with his fin-de-siecle mannerisms, it seems as if this history has been severed from the present. Too much that is heretical has happened since that other age, and it is enough that literature should continue to be possible...
SUNDANCE and Butch labor in the barren vineyards of fin de siecle West. It's 1898 and times are changing. Townspeople have traded in their shooting irons for vests and gold watch chains, the Spanish-American War has begun, and the bicycle appears in a cameo role as the supplanter of the horse. (Mercifully, the automobile doesn't appear; it would have been too poignant.) Outlawing has meanwhile become a depressed industry. A railroad baron hires bounty hunters to drive Butch and Sundance out of business. Butch is willing to be bought out, but not rubbed out. So there ensues...