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TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. Lush Mediterranean settings, evocative nature writing and ribald wit are the underpinnings of this exuberant novel about an omniscient computer and its inventor's ambiguous struggles for freedom...
...royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family's 15 acres of greenhouses and gardens on the French Riviera's lush Cap d'Antibes...
...lighting, by Bob Harlow and Sergio Modigliani (they are responsible, I suppose, both for the spots and the splendid slides) exhibits much the same winning qualities as does the dancing. The colors are lush, the patterns interesting, but success again depends on a very well-marked sense of timing and rhythm...
Beating the Bushes. From the lush, Mekong Delta to the sterile Demilitarized Zone, the U.S. is hard-pressed to root out the enemy. In fact, the allies have managed to take the offensive in only one region-the 10,000-sq.-mi. Ill Corps area that arches around Saigon. In the war's largest operation, a three-week-old campaign called Resolved to Win, 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops are beating the bushes. Last week they stirred a series of sharp firefights; 527 Communists were killed, raising the sweep's total to some 2,400. Though...
...image of the computer as truth giver. The hero, too, is brought up to date. The Alexandria Quartet was in large part about an artist's struggle for freedom within his culture; Tune, which in Latin means next," deals with the similar struggles of a scientist. Beneath its lush trappings and Mediterranean settings, the novel is basically a study of the ironies and ambiguities that result when a man tries to stand apart from society...