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...owned by the U.S.-based Gulf Oil Corp., as a warning to foreign firms that they can no longer conduct business safely in Angola. There has often been speculation that Washington tacitly supports the guerrillas, although such a connection has never been stated. Only State Department hands with a keen sense of irony, however, could fully appreciate the action of guerrillas wrecking the property of a U.S. company in order to score points against a Marxist regime...
What his personal history has cost Skvorecky, only he can measure. But in the process of recording his pain he lends a keen zest to the act of living and writing. So this is what the novel has been! So this is what the novel can still be! Readers for whom contemporary fiction has meant obligatory searches for self-fulfillment or another go-around at suburban malaise may never be the same...
Spurred by Congressional concern over University stewardship of research funds in the 1970s, federal auditors have taken an increasingly keen interest in the systems schools use for keeping track of the vast amount of money doled out by the government. In particular, they wanted universities to do a better job of keeping track of the multiple research projects a professor is often working on at one time...
MacLaine's earnest intensity is balanced by a keen sense of humor and an unpretentious, often puckish approach to life. Dean Martin calls her "the world's best laugher" and has traded practical jokes with her for years. Konchalovsky says, "Shirley likes to play, to throw you in the water or to make a small device that falls on your head so something spills all over you." She has childlike fears: lightning and Chinese firecrackers. Until lately, she prided herself on being able to walk down the street unrecognized, if she chose, simply by changing the proud dancer...
Most rockers, male or female, play a coy game of footsie under the table with fate. Hynde stomps right on its toes. When she gets kicked back, she writes a song that is part taunt, part testament and part a perpetual reappraisal of the price paid for defiance. This keen balancing act between distance and immediacy is probably what saved Hynde when the going got tough a few years back...