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...clunky style of "Errand" is a throwback to the 19th century, but "Errand" is an experiment, a post-modern experiment, on the border between fiction and non-fiction. Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Don DeLillo's Libra are other examples of the post-modern urge to cross genres and mix fact with fiction. Seen in this light, "Errand" is not a return of older influences, it is a departure from the rigid prohibitions that minimalism can impose...
PEOPLE are insincere. They say things like "Tell it like it is," "Be yourself," and "Let it all hang out." Too often they mean "You look terrible without a bra," "I don't care if you're a Libra," or "I am announcing the start of bombing in Cambodia." People rarely lie, they simply are not sincere...
...made its observation last month while flying in a specially equipped C-141 "airborne observatory" through the night sky southwest of Australia. The astronomers had aimed the aircraft's 90-cm. (36-in.) telescope at Uranus, which was passing in front of a distant star in the constellation Libra. By recording variations in light from the star just before and after it was eclipsed by Uranus, they hoped to measure the diameter and study the atmosphere of the planet -which at a distance of 2.8 billion km. (1.7 billion miles) from the sun can barely be seen with...
...fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never made explicit between Wray...
...some people always late? Why are some people always on time? Depending on whom one asks, the answer is in the stars, the psyche or the cold eye of reason. In eight cases out of ten, asserts Astrologist Linda Goodman (Sun Signs), people who were born under Aries, Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces will be late most of the time. A Leo will be punctual and tardy in equal measure. "No one," she says, "tells the lion what...