Word: ganges
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roth determination not to repeat himself is becoming, in fact, his most famous and only predictable trait. The writer who went from Portnoy's Complaint to political satire (Our Gang), and thence to Kafkaesque fantasy (The Breast) is now so impatient that he cannot even wait to complete this book before trying to reconstruct himself. In My Life as a Man, he switches persona in mid-volume. The result is superb as a performance and uneven as a book (or rather, two books). It leads, finally, to some questions. Does a kind of bravura restlessness now not only characterize...
...conclusions was Thomas Matthews, an 18-year-old high school student. He was kidnaped by Patty and her S.L.A. companions, Emily and William Harris, during their frantic escape after shooting up a Los Angeles sporting-goods store the day before the fiery siege in which six of the S.L.A. gang members died. For twelve hours, the trio held Matthews captive while driving aimlessly around the Los Angeles area in his van. They even stopped for a while in a drive-in movie. Immediately after his release, Matthews, fearing reprisal by the S.L.A., did not tell the authorities that Patty...
...trial of the telephone gang is the most serious case to come before the world's most forgotten court since 1929, and at first there was some predictable confusion. Although the trial was supposed to be public, most of the reporters who were able to find the obscure tribunal behind St. Peter's Basilica were turned away before the clerk could cry, "In the name of the Holy Spirit and the reigning Pontiff Paul VI!" When defense lawyers protested that their clients' rights had been violated because they had been interrogated without counsel, the court...
...security men and precious objects. In fact, the heists involved considerable ingenuity. According to the confession of one defendant, the thieves had managed to enter the Pope's quarters at the top of the Apostolic Palace in July 1969 while he was supposedly at his summer residence. The gang ransacked his rooms, unlocked his private elevator with a stolen key, ascended to a terrace and escaped over the rooftops. One of the accused argued that he could not possibly have been a member of the gang because his hemorrhoids would never permit him to slide through sewers and negotiate...
DOCTORS. Some physicians work closely with operators, who occasionally reward them-and give them an incentive for keeping the home's beds filled -by providing them with stock in the institutions. Some doctors make "gang visits," dropping in on a home, making a quick tour of the patients' rooms and charging all of them for individual calls. Physicians have also been known to cooperate with operators in a more nefarious practice, keeping patients sedated so that they will require less attention...