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...times, this novel reads like one of Dashiel Hammett's hard-boiled detective novels, with violent action, illicit sex and a tender-hearted toughie for its hero. But Dunne's treatment of these people remains too sensitive and perceptive for this book to be classified in that genre. As the voice shifts from omniscient narration to eavesdrop on Shea's thoughts and colorful dialogue. Dunne makes us painfully aware of his hero's growing depression as he begins to believe that he is trapped--by what his girlfriend labels the self-fulfilling prophecies of despair and his priest would call...
...proposed addition would read. "Students are reminded that there are heavy penalties including imprisonment for possession or distribution of illicit drugs...
Only in Alaska may a person possess a small amount of marijuana. Yet almost anywhere in the nation it is possible to find stores selling pipes and other gear with which to enjoy the illicit weed. Called head shops ("head" is slang for a frequent drug user), they number about 15,000 and do an estimated $2 billion in annual business. But after an 8-to-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week, high times could turn into hard times...
...reader concerned only with plot, the yield is relatively low. The pastoral is an ancient tradition. Small schools for the young daughters of the leisure classes have had more literary attention, certainly, than their numbers have called for. Freeman has missed no gothic twists here--ghost sightings, illicit trysts, sensual foreigners, even secret abortions...
opportunity. The perils are obvious. The free world's alliances are weakened and some of its economies faltering; the adversaries are more threatening and the have-nots more demanding. Military power and its illicit offspring, terrorism, threaten to break all restraints. Firm decisions elude American strategists on nuclear security. Recession continues and worries deepen over the impact of budget and tax cuts. Decline in the auto, steel and building industries spills over to small business, farming and credit...