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Needed Thrust. Nonetheless, the primary has for decades carried psychological significance as a political Ides of March from which candidates, both an nounced and unannounced, can emerge carrying the knife triumphantly in their hands or painfully in their ribs. This year the hoopla will be all the greater because both parties will participate in the winter sport-a condition assured last week when Minnesota Democrat Eugene McCarthy announced that he would add New Hampshire to the five other states in which he will give the party a pacific alternative to Lyndon Johnson's renomination...
...challenging to others as the act of painting them is for him. His own self-portrait is a mixture of honesty and defiance. "If a person stands in front of you," he points out, "with his hands in his pockets and his shirt open, someone can stick a knife in his stomach." Thanks to Leslie's technical mas tery, the painting captures both his sullen antagonism toward the world and, at the same time, makes him look as innocent and as vulnerable as any of Pearlstein's coldly viewed nudes...
...shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads arrive-one of them Beverly Bentley, the current Mrs. Mailer. She hands him a knife a couple of times, but nothing comes of it. After a while the money runs out, and the home movie just stops...
...Then-perhaps to oblige Smith's need for dramatic footage or their own need for a grisly revenge-Passantino and some other, still unidentified G.I.s took turns cutting the ears off three of the dead enemy soldiers. At his court-martial, Pawlaczyk testified that Smith offered him a knife. "I attempted to cut the dead man's ear," Pawlaczyk said, "being careful not to look at his face and trying to keep my hand from shaking. Since the knife was dull, I decided to stop. I did not feel very good and gave the whole thing...
...other is exceeded only by their common terror of dying alone. The Bouins married in their 60s, and now, in their 70s, their communication is limited to nasty little notes to each other. Simenon car ries their story along less by turns of plot than by twists of the knife. Venom becomes the sole remaining source of vitality. And when Marguerite Bouin dies, her husband, who hated her so, collapses. He has little hope of ever leaving the hospital...