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...beach you see seals and oil pumps, as well as men, too dumpy and too old to be making fools of themselves, on roller skates. On the freeway you see an oil pump in a bend where, elsewhere in the nation, there would most likely be a fruit stand. There is a camouflaged oil pump on the campus of Beverly Hills High School. Just as you begin to understand there is sensible, sound, big commerce in this vast polyglot a sign looms up: LANDSLIDE AREA. CONSTANT LAND MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES. USE EXTREME CAUTION. Constant land movement? So why build...
Sound, fury and rotting fruit signify trouble for Thatcher...
...workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port by 10 p.m. or else. An hour before the deadline, scared dock strikers relented and waved the vehicles by. Seven hours later, union officials and port...
Spark's novel, the fruit of a simple but profound analysis, reveals how easily a love which is not tending to perfection or at least to improvement can be perverted to supply the energy for a really malicious hatred. Effie and Harvey are attracted to each other because they are, in some sense, opposites. He admires her for her uselessness, even while criticizing the impractical applications of her idealism. Effie, on the other hand, finds Harvey quite useful. Effie uses Harvey efficiently and thoroughly, employing his house for her affairs and trying, after the split, to get a large divorce...
...past two years. He finds that the most voluble authorities on Israelis are Israelis. "They are willing to drop everything, serve you coffee and try to explain themselves and their country," he says. "That includes kibbutzniks at Negba, who gathered three generations of their members and over cookies and fruit juice told me how it was fighting Egyptians in '48 and how it is now fighting the economy; Author Amos Oz, who interrupted work on his new novel to explain how deeply Israelis care about what other people think of them; and Opposition Leader Shimon Peres and Prime Minister...