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...Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money...
...that somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of all black children in central Alabama suffer brain damage by the time they are five years old because of protein deficiency. Adult Negroes show the effect of another kind of malnutrition. A diet based on fat and carbohydrate produces bloated, formless women, and men who die twice as often of heart disease as whites...
...areas be supervised? When would the U.S. know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions. But the war itself has been messy and formless, and the from-the-ground-up solution might reflect Vietnamese realities to a much greater extent than the alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might...
...Lane, Manhattan's top man for expensive costume jewelry, likes to drape fake-moonstone-studded chains around waists and necks, even rings ankles with rhinestones sewed onto stockings. Lane believes that his belts ($75 to $300) are just the thing to dress up the popular harem fashion, the formless caftan...
...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...