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Reeves, who used his status as a rent-controlled tenant as a selling-point in his campaign last year, labeled the story a "hatchet...
Once in country, O'Brien succeeds as well as any writer in conveying the free-fall sensation of fear and the surrealism of combat. Sometimes he succumbs to stagy symbolism, such as a scene of a literal burying of a hatchet. But when one character defines death as "like being inside a book that nobody's reading," O'Brien's notion of story-truth goes off like a successful trip-flare, and we suddenly see why he had to become a writer...
...Preservation of Archaeological Collections, weighed in: "We are not talking about somebody's uncle. Some of these people were buried in the time of the Greeks and the Romans. Destruction of their remains is really unconscionable." Will the Indians ever bury those bones? Will academe ever bury the hatchet? Stay tuned...
Marshall I. Goldman, the associate director of the Russian Research Center, had been interviewed by Soviet reporters before. "You knew it was always going to be a hatchet job," he said...
...Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked. " 'Glamorous,' " drawled Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under the gleam of crystal refracted by lemony candlelight, Lear presided over dinner for twelve served by a squadron of waiters. Playing impresario...