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...volume of short stories is his longest and most various, not his best. Out of twenty-nine, eight are very good Updike, which means that they stand among the best fiction in contemporary American literature. The others are either entertainments, collections of variations on literary themes which only erratically gel, or brittle middle-class social comedies in which the sophistication of the writing surface jars with the sitcom situations it carries along...
Since the team may take some time to gel as an effective unit. Munro feels Harvard's number three ranking is as misleading as the "rebuilding" label "Primarily our ranking was pure sentiment," he said "based on last year's finish in Miami...
...guerrilla war broke out. I.R.A. terrorists stepped up their sniping attack on the army outpost in Belfast's Lenadoon Avenue by rolling a bulldozer laden with a 50-lb. gelignite bomb toward the sandbagged building. Though I.R.A. men fired on the rolling bomb, only a portion of the gel ignite exploded. The army responded by going on the offensive against I.R.A. strongholds, dispatching 700 troops to the Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops from the Lenadoon hot point. The heaviest action took place in Belfast...
...offshoot of Carbide's farming ventures is a $3.50 toy, "Nature's Window." Marketed by Ideal Toy Corp., it is a kit of seeds and two plastic disks containing a chemical gel that retains water; in it, seeds begin to germinate within a couple of days. By year's end Carbide expects to sell 15 million disks to Ideal...
...virtuoso in every medium from clay to rubber, from stainless steel to Plexiglas, and his involvement with craft sometimes gives his images a cer tain preciousness. His newest works, The Souls, are slabs of aspic-like silicon gel, none of them bigger than a sheet of typing paper, in which objects are set and, as it were, embalmed. The gel has the disconcerting resiliency of flesh-it feels vulnerable and intimate-while its contents, which may be any thing from a cut-out decal of a rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry...