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Overly exagerrated attempts to link Celine with more prestigious French writers are the book's principal shortcoming. McCarthy loses some of his critical flare and originality in the process. For instance, he illustrates Celine's disillusionment with sex with this lament from the protagonist of Journey: "Pleasure pretty soon becomes hard work." Then, for some reason, he seems to feel it is necessary to congratulate Celine by juxtaposing a similar Baudelairean observation: "after debauchery one always feels more alone, more abandoned." But the net effect is merely to emphasize how commonplace the idea really...
...atmospheric conditions and quirky weather has on occasion rendered it inoperable. Fortunately, neither superpower had any urgent messages to transmit during these periods of non-function. Still, it is chilling to contemplate the future of mankind turning on weather conditions between Moscow and Bern, Switzerland, or on a flare-up of sunspots...
...Research. Lignasan BLP is dissolved in water and pumped into a tree's circulatory system through holes drilled into the tree at or just below the root "flare" at ground level. In experiments conducted on 7,500 trees last year and an anticipated 100,000 elms this summer by the Elm Research Institute of Harrisville, N.H., early test results indicate that Lignasan is 99% effective when used preventively-before the disease strikes-on healthy trees. But many plant scientists refuse to endorse the product until they know more about proper dosages, duration of protection and the chemical...
...second largest corporation in the world behind General Motors. Oil Economist Morris Adelman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sees no great loss or gain from breaking up the oil companies and thinks the effort is a "waste of time." Yet the issue will probably continue to flare, especially if the Democrats gain both the Congress and the White House in November...
...best, and he desperately needs the financial support of his former teammate Phil Romano, a boorish but successful businessman. The problem is that Phil wants to support George's opponent Sharmen, ne Sharmawitz. To complicate matters even more, Phil has been sleeping with George's wife. Naturally, hostilities flare up when James takes it upon himself to enlighten George...