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Harrison's humor in Warlock puts the wrong man in the trench coat. Lundgren is a poet, not a flatfoot, a satyr trying his hoof at logic and deduction. Like most literary fools since Don Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell...
...lines, and from time to time an entire installment is clever. For example, no one has challenged Buchwald's claim to the invention of the MX missile-Amtrak gag, which has since become an integral part of Op-Ed page vocabulary throughout the nation. Insisting that "nobody wants to fool the Soviets more than I do when it comes to pinpointing our missiles," he proceeds with the definitive explanation of how Amtrak delays and reroutings would provide the perfect element of surprise needed to unhinge Moscow's first-strike planners...
Walesa fought hard last week to bring back under control the union he had worked so hard to build. On the second day of the Gdansk session, he grasped the white lectern with both hands and angrily replied to his critics. "Don't think I'm a fool, or that I am manipulated by the experts," he said, responding to charges that he depended too heavily on his advisers. Walesa berated the radicals for seeking "to destroy the Sejm [parliament] and government, take their place, and become more totalitarian than they are." He added: "This we cannot...
Says Pharmacist Jere Goyan of the University of California at San Francisco and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration: "It used to be that making the diagnosis was the difficult part, and the idea was that any damn fool could prescribe, especially since there were so few drugs that worked. Now there are so many, and all have some sort of bad effects too." Pharmacists get three to four years of training, almost exclusively about drugs. Many of them know more than doctors do about potentially dangerous drug interactions. Medical schools usually give only one formal course...
...bullion had been recovered. At current prices, the full trove of the Edinburgh will be worth about $85 million. Said Britain's Keith Jessop, 48, who organized the expedition: "That's one in the eye for all those people who've been calling me a blind fool...