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Scheer and Rankin's historic bridgework is as skilled as their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have...
THERE ARE MOMENTS when Inserts seems to aspire to tragedy and others when it verges on absurdist farce. The broadly farcical sequences lighten what might otherwise be a plodding melodrama and heighten the pathos of The Boy Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity...
Some of the advantages of the quarter system would be to lighten the course load per term for students and enable the Institute to attract more visiting faculty for shorter periods, James Bruce, chairman of the committee and associate dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday...
...farfetched. The technology of North Sea production is indeed impressive. But the prospective financial benefits are hardly enough to send Britons into orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...neared the end of his seven-day shuttle through the region last week, Kissinger tried to lighten the situation with some levity during a three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...