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...Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed an ounce of gold in her fist. His bloodshot eyes glistening, Manion later reckoned that the day's haul, which included a few more nuggets, was worth about $200. Good, but not good enough. Said he: "I'm still looking for that glory hole and the nugget that takes two hands to hold...
There are several ways in which a novel based on such a premise could run rapidly downhill. It could sour into morbidity or fist-shaking stridency or traipse into a misty, philosophical meadow, where every delicious moment is the first one of the rest of our lives. This tightly constructed first novel makes no such blunders. English Author Gillian Martin uses Hannah's perverse decision as an occasion not to settle old scores but to examine some unexamined lives...
...perspiring. Her left fist kayoes phantom adversaries in the air. Candidate Carter promised a federal takeover of welfare, and Candidate Abzug would hold him to it. "The city of New York has to organize and seek coalitions of the people, and mayors, and Governors and members of Congress and labor and the banks to insist that there is a national movement, and we in the city of New York need a billion dollars to take care of our streets, our teachers, our sanitation, our housing, our hospitals, our senior centers, our child-care centers...
...prone to waving red handkerchiefs, symbolic of blood, and leading crowds in shouting "Down with Yankee imperialism!" on public occasions. In a speech in Addis Ababa's Revolution Square last month, he engaged in one typically colorful bit of theater. First he raised his hand in a clenched-fist salute. Then he smashed to the ground six bottles filled with bloodlike dye-just to show how he would destroy all enemies of his rule...
...their American counterparts. For many people in Rösrath, even that is too much. Edith Szyperski reports that her 33-year-old maid, who was a year old when World War II ended, sometimes wastes hot water. "It bothers me so," says Mrs. Szyperski, and she makes a fist to show her tension-and her memories...