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...Boston Globe. There is as little reason to doubt his motives as there is reason to doubt that nuclear weapons will be with us until they end our world. But arguing that society should not tolerate nuclear arms is, in effect, arguing that physics should be uninvented. The fusion bomb is non-returnable...
...with the tide of world events. "We've seen Iranians after the hostage crisis, Russians, Germans and Mexicans with headdresses," says Blanchard. He mentions current Texas favorites: "Tully the Kid," "Wahoo" McDaniel, "Abdullah the Butcher," a gallery of rogues conjured from professional wrestling's fevered imagination. A fusion of morality play and Greek comedy, wrestling fires extreme emotions, building to the catharsis of victory of good over evil, of hero over villain...
...powerful fusion of forces has been propelling the dollar upward. "It's not just a single factor," says Salomon Brothers Chief Economist Henry Kaufman. "It's the combination." High U.S. interest rates that attract foreign cash are among the major reasons. At 13%, the U.S. prime rate is at its loftiest since September 1982, and pressures from the huge federal deficit and the economic rebound are likely to drive the prime higher. High interest rates, of course, can be good for those with money in the bank...
...Gentlemen, gentlemen," exclaims another, "let us return the athletics to the athletes. The Olympics cannot persist with such a fusion of the body physical and the body political...
...first novel, V. (1963), with its fusion of paranoia and surrealism, provided one of the most impressive literary debuts of the decade. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), shorter and more straightforward than its predecessor, won more converts to the growing Pynchon cult. And the encyclopedic Gravity's Rainbow (1973) stunned both critics and readers as the most ambitious American novel since Moby Dick...