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...fist in the face or a knee in the groin are routine asides. The climaxes occur when a gang of hoodlums beats a stray soldier nearly to death, with every kick, blow, chipped tooth, broken bone, and gout of blood and vomit described in detail; when a gang of transvestites and their boy friends get high on gin, Benzedrine and morphine, with every ensuing act of sodomy and fellatio described in detail; when a gang of dockworkers, derelicts and degenerates inflict multiple intercourse upon a prostitute in a parking lot so savagely that she is killed, with every drop...
...become an unbelievable success by indulging its customers' penchant for convenience, impulse buying and gadgetry. The salesman is the ubiquitous vending machine, before which Americans stoop, bow and jingle coins as if it were a roadside shrine. The machines usually come through, too, and with less fist-pounding than ever before. Some 4,500,000 of them-or one for every 43 Americans -now dispense everything from gum to gardenias to greeting cards at the drop of a coin...
...stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle...
...band thundered the Sportpalast Waltz-a ditty whose magic lies in the fact that every few bars the audience can join in with three short, shrill whistles. When enough beer and schnapps had flowed (nightly sales total 18,000 glasses of each), spectators swarmed onto the infield to dance. Fist fights flared in the smoky upper reaches of the grandstands, known as the "hayloft." The occupants of this low-cost Olympus exercise dictatorial power over the groundlings, demanding and usually getting kegs of free beer from the celebrities they spot in ringside seats below them. If no beer is forthcoming...
...LITURGIES OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE (Columbia). Scored for soprano chorus, strings, and a miscellany of soundmakers including a vibraphone, Chinese cymbals, gongs and the electronic instrument called Ondes Martenot, this 20-year-old work is a reminder of Messiaen's Orient-tilted talents. Like a preacher shaking his fist, the French composer uses wild, sliding sounds, surprise rhythms, and his own effusive text to insist that God is omnipresent. Leonard...