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...home, and he found she was inside. There was a great fire blazing in the hearth, and the smell of cedar split in billets, and sweetwood burning, spread all over the island. She was singing inside the cave with a sweet voice and she went up and down the loom and wove with a golden shuttle...
...Bread. The exodus figures loom even larger because of a sudden 50% drop in immigration; that is largely a result of the Kremlin's sharp cut back in the number of Russian Jews al lowed to leave the Soviet Union. Only 8,518 Russian Jews immigrated to Israel in 1975, compared with 16,816 in 1974 and 33,477 in 1973. Jerusalem is just as alarmed by the fact that 40% of new immigrants from Western countries have returned to their original homelands within five years. Last year a total of 19,000 Jews left Israel, while only...
...horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
...industry's resurgence is also being speeded by improved technology like the shuttleless loom, which is more flexible in reproducing designs and runs at higher speeds than conventional looms. Textile producers are also turning away from their historical emphasis on volume production, which often resulted in glutted markets and depressed prices, to concentrate on highly salable items that offer greater returns on investment. Finally, the rush of imports that has plagued the industry in the past has slowed, partly because of the 1971 agreement that drastically curbed imports from Japan and the Far East, partly because costs recently have...
...difficult. Writing for a minute market--liberal intellectuals, largely Eastern--he can begin each of his perhaps fifty stories with a literary world presupposed. Marx, Freud, Byron, a Jewish boyhood (familiar to gentile literati from reading Mailer and Roth), and the inertia of the 1950s all loom in the book's background, the author only has to select which allusions to use for each story's point of departure...