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...ruptured skull, still holding the axe. The split-head image recurs in a story called "Last Hit." A girl shoots up and frazzles her mind until woolly monsters push through the top of her skull. The artwork in Bogeyman is the best in the series, coming to an uncanny height in the gaunt faces of terminal addicts, particularly a drawing of a boy who has discovered the pusher has given him crystalline battery acid instead of heroin...
When I first got home in June, it was the height of the patriotism season. Hard hat ideologists can celebrate the trilogy of patriotic holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, and the Fourth of July. It's an orgy of flag waving quite unlike anything I'd seen in Cambridge. And after it was all over, it really wasn't; the Reporter Dispatch flashed headlines about the upcoming convention of Westchester County American Legions, to be held in Mt. Kisco. "Yes, Rose, it's true! Here! In Mt. Kisco!" There was a parade, gun salutes, the works. And there...
...Chiefs questioned the political wisdom of intervening in what they considered an Arab civil war and reasoned that the cost to the U.S. in terms of Arab enmity would not justify trying to save Hussein. On military grounds, they considered landlocked Jordan a logistical nightmare. Moreover, at the height of the crisis, the Sixth Fleet had no way of transporting Marines into Jordan by helicopter; Guam and its choppers were still five days to the west. Militarily, however, the Chiefs had little objection to providing Hussein's troops with carrier-based tactical air support...
...contrast, Chaban-Delmas, a World War II Resistance hero, conducted a cool, low-key campaign. He hardly hit the hustings, concentrating instead on a few polite dinners and speeches. At the height of the J-J S-S blitz, Chaban-Delmas picked up the pace, but only a bit. Undoubtedly he figured his past popularity and present eminence would pull him through...
Jammed with 190,000 students, the 18 campuses of New York City's municipal university last week looked like 18 Grand Central stations during the height of rush hour. Classes met in auditoriums and converted storefronts, a synagogue and a onetime indoor hockey rink. With surprising fervor, the City University of New York (CUNY) had set out to help break the poverty cycle of young people-both white and black -who graduate with serious educational deficiencies from the city's high schools each year. Under its new "open admissions" policy, CUNY was taking such students despite their academic...