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Republicans over the nation had just about given up the special election in California's 24th Congressional District, a jig-sawed piece of Los Angeles County. The district usually votes Republican, but two members of that party were running, and each was expected to get about half the G.O.P. vote...
...jig is about up. Dr. Rock has his last joke about Fallon and Broom: "They are corpse-diviners. Or, as some have green fingers for gardening, so they have black fingers for death." Then the police, the trial, disgrace. Dr. Rock himself is saved from trial by influential colleagues who have had dealings with body snatchers themselves. But life in Edinburgh is hardly bearable for a man, how ever innocent, when the desperately poor sing in the streets...
...individual episodes themselves are sometimes magnificently caught. There is the cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing...
Tears from Adolf. Near the end of The Rommel Papers comes a gripping chapter on Rommel's death, written by his son Manfred. After the German reverses in Normandy, Rommel was convinced the jig was up, advised Hitler repeatedly to end the war. Neither Liddell Hart nor Manfred Rommel makes it clear to what extent the general was involved in the plots against Hitler, but one day in October 1944, Rommel was at his home in Herrlingen recovering from the wounds suffered when his staff car was shot up. At about 12 o'clock, a dark green auto...
Kennedy calls the process of matchup classroom, hour, and day with the requirements of each course and section "a geographical jig-saw puzzle." He starts with a few perennially large classes that are traditionally located in Sanders Theatre or the New Lecture Hall. Then he and his assistant, Mrs. Barre, begin filling out a cross-index chart developed by her husband...