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...time being, he was talking only to me. But when a limousine pulled up at the far end of the strip that defines the Mayor's Marketplace, even without looking at them I knew those eyes had moved to the moving car just as surely as a chicken hawk's eyes home in on its quarry...
Georgia-born Harry Crews has pushed this proposition about as far as it can go. In such short novels as Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, The Hawk Is Dying and Car (in which a man eats a car), Crews customized gothic cliches into literary hot-rods. A Feast of Snakes is his most outlandish vehicle to date. Set in Mystic, Ga., site of an annual rattlesnake hunt, the book gathers its atmosphere from the frenzies and violence associated with religious primitivism...
...purchases during 1972-75. Runners-up: Israel ($5.5 billion during the same period) and Saudi Arabia ($3.1 billion). Another Middle Eastern purchaser is Jordan, which for a while this year was considering buying an air-defense system from the Soviet Union. Instead, King Hussein decided to purchase an American Hawk antiaircraft missile system. The deal was reportedly put together after Iran joined Saudi Arabia in offering to help Jordan raise part of the $550 million required...
What, if anything, can be done? "Make torture as unthinkable as slavery," answers David Hawk, the executive director of Amnesty International's New York branch. As Hawk well knows, that laudable goal is not easy to achieve-no easier, certainly, than the abolition of slavery was. Amnesty itself has had some limited success in securing the release of individual prisoners by means of letter-writing campaigns and appeals to conscience directed at government officials...
Sakers and Slush Lamps. Atmosphere is another Sabatini attraction. From a mind crammed with historical minutiae he fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout...