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Despite clever barbs and lucent epigrams ("Respect is the only successful aphrodisiac"), Any God Will Do is not as acidly funny as it keeps promising to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose...
...cloverleaf indicated by color and with highway signs to match, U.S. motorists would lave less trouble finding their way through superhighway mazes. Hercules Powder Co., pioneer producer of polypropylene, has developed a new glass-and-plastic material for a third-stage shell for the Minuteman missile. It is trans lucent, as light as magnesium and stronger than steel...
...cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills...
...user Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
Village is a study in faces-native Mexican mountain faces: strong-nosed, squash-nosed, distrustful, lucent and, except for the children, lined by labor. Its actors (all natives) are natural and astonishingly good, especially a mop-haired little boy (Paco), who dies of dysentery, and his older brother (Juan Diego), who makes the long hike to the city to return with the "horse-blood men"-Mexico's rural medicos and their vaccine...