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...Army may travel on its stomach, but defeat or victory rides on the generals' epaulets. The Sukhomlinov Effect -named after the sartorially smashing but strategically stumbling World War I Czarist War Minister, V.A. Sukhomlinov-suggests that the winners wear the least flashy uniforms. In the current issue of Horizon, Scholars Roger Beaumont and Bernard J. James review the dress of military leaders from bedraggled American colonists to pajamaed Viet Cong. With the exception of the drably turned-out forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained...
...seemed, if anything, to be receding over the horizon...
...brought the first "cinematic mobility" to the English novel: long tracking shots, like Oliver Twist's escapades in grimy alleys, where the scenes flash by like some satanic carnival; wide panoramas, like the scene in the brickyard in Dombey and Son, where the city lies on the horizon like a vast, destructive machine; dreamlike overhead views, like the dawn in Little Dorrit, where the news of Financier Merdle's suicide spreads through the town like poison through an organism...
...mood," warns Thorpe. In the lifting darkness, the hunters flush a pair of teal. Thorpe takes no notice. His quarry is not duck but the prized pink-footed goose. Positioning the hunters along a flyway, Thorpe raises his nose and sniffs the wind. His squinty blue eyes search the horizon. Then, lifting his face to the gray sky, he emits a series of harsh, high-pitched cries...
...does not end... The variations go on until they seem to merge into a purple horizon, and vanish...