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Pancake shows us the sufferings of his characters unflinchingly: the stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills...
...industry. The business of virtually every major firm has been hurt, and the common estimate is that a 20- to 30- percent excess capacity presently exists. These are hard times for truckers, and Reagan's advice concerning "passing on the tax to the customer" has a decidedly hollow ring in the face of the cutthroat competition engendered by the present situation. It is hardly a surprise that the independent truckers chose to strike or that the ATA and the Teamsters were less than effusive in supporting them. From the trucking establishment's point of view, it wouldn...
...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...
...editorial page, says, "The credibility of the tone of voice counts when you are trying to reach readers tempted to resist your conclusions." But for Frankel the climate has changed: "Do we belong to the culture at large? Sure. The same editorial 18 months ago would have sounded hollow or bitchy...
...only is the climate inimical, but the drug traffic has blasted apart the social order, enriching undesirables and demoralizing the forces of civic order. Rawden knows that he and his agents can achieve only hollow victories on the side of law and order: "There's so much stuff coming in that we could arrest just the grandmothers and do just as well." Even Cruz complains about what has happened to the neighborhood: "People used to come down here just to spend their money, but now they're not happy unless they go back with more. They...