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...really great, loyal following of customers," she said. "I think there's plenty of market share around for everybody...
...resists modern notions of suspense. The question is not what will happen next but how thoroughly the bard recounts the particulars of every scene. Fagles' translation captures this peculiar quality perfectly. Late in the story Odysseus is back in Ithaca; he has revealed his identity to Telemachus and two loyal servants and challenged the hundred or so of Penelope's suitors to a fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons in Odysseus' storeroom. Melanthius emerges "one hand clutching a crested helmet...
...knew Mac Bundy for more than 40 years. In the White House he was my immediate boss, and thereafter he became one of my closest friends. Your description of him was unrecognizable. "Cold"? To me and a number of other people, Mac was an intensely loyal, warm and attentive friend, caring and supportive in good times and bad. To say he "marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American...
...this time." "Saddam Hussein is probably better off than four years ago." Quoting Jack Kemp as saying Dole never "met a tax he didn't hike. "Supports electronic gun control checks. If they register "tilt," the buyer "gets zippo." "I hate drugs, Senator." "Great Britain--they've always been loyal to us." "It is not midnight in America, Senator." "My blood pressure's lower, my weight and my cholestorol. But I don't want to make health an issue in this campaign." On drugs: "Just...
...possibly faux) Tarantino: comically excessive, in-your-face violence; intricately coincidental but not entirely unpersuasive plotting; black humor; and, at the center of the story, a large sum of funny money and, more important, a sweetly loyal, ultimately all-conquering romance...