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...This hand," bespectacled George Day, 53, is saying Saturday morning as he gestures at a half-closed fist, the right one, attached to a misshapen forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like...
Critics sometimes complain about how many of Singer's characters behave irrationally and about how many of his plots hinge on the machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate. Such readers forget the most important ingredient in the ancient art of storytelling that Singer practices: wonder, awe at a world that can contain such deeds and such doers. Aaron echoes his creator when he complains about the cold passion for explanations: "Who says that everything nature or human nature does can be expressed in motives and words? I had been aware for a long time that literature could...
...anticipates no problems in visiting the USSR. She plans to take Russian lessons at Columbia this summer. Her confidence is based on innate idealism--"Music is an international language. Everyone understands it," she jokes--and determination: "I will pass through the iron curtain with my iron will and iron fist...
...overblown, obnoxious performance. You can't really blame the hairpiece-clad Andrew Madison (Andrew Madison??), however, for lighting into a union with the provocative name of F.I.S.T., can you? When Kovak exhorts the men: "It ain't a bunch of letters like any other union. It says fist. One fist! That's what we are!" they respond with a spontaneous display of extended fists which make the proceedings resemble nothing more than a Hitler youth rally...
...labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...