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...courses are grim. Israeli and Syrian troops are currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...
...Myra is periodically able to take full command of Myron's body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning...
Shakespeare ends his entrancing balcony scene by giving Juliet a godawful valedictory couplet; and, when she is discovered apparently lifeless, the Nurse's "O woeful day" speech is embarrassing. Then there are those two short consecutive scenes that inflict the words "banished" and "banishment" on us no less than 26 times. Not even General St. Pe's repeated references to his "seventeen years" of marriage in Waltz of the Toreadors can come close to the numbing annoyance of this portion of Romeo...
...first encounter: discouraging the sale of land to builders of a planned drive-in theater. Polizzi sent the Democratic ward committeeman into the streets with a sound truck announcing an emergency meeting in the Big Club Hall. After a session exploring the blight that the drive-in would inflict on the area, a small army of Italian dowagers volunteered to lie down in front of the bulldozers. The sellers backed down, and the Hill's alderman quickly slipped a regulation through the zoning board forbidding a building permit for any drive-in within 500 ft. of a residential area...
...Which was the greater waste of time was a toss-up. Staring at walls had no bad after-effects, but it was also a little difficult to justify to other people. Harvard students generally have this ridiculous misconception that they make good conversation, and are all too ready to inflict it on their friends/victims. Beach found most of them as boring as he found himself, and though an inbred civility made it impossible for him to get rid of them as quickly as he would have liked, he found that by staring at walls even as people tried to talk...