Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woman screaming on Chauncy and Garden"...Sgt. Peter A. O'Hare, supervisor for the 12 a.m.-to-8 a.m. shift, pulls onto Mass Ave and turns on the speed. Cars block his way--he uses the manual light switch. The cars clear. he turns down Shepard. "Negative, disregard woman screaming." ..."Car 1 to' base...It looks like the woman was just leaving the party at Bertram with a friend...
...Girls in Their Summer Dresses a womanizer's roving eye finally set ties on the most beautiful legs in the room: his wife's-a comment on male sexuality that says more than any behaviorist manual. Act of Faith, in which a Jewish soldier trades in a pistol to treat his Christian buddies to drinks, is an explanation of the Masada complex that remains undated. Mixed Doubles, the story of a couple whose on-court skirmishes reveal a betrayed trust, seems doubly acute in a time of Inner Tennis...
...MANUAL FOR MANUEL...
Argentina is a country rich in every thing but stability. The nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here...
...fundamentalist Abilene, Texas, as an overseer on his brother's cattle ranch and as a truck dispatcher for a petroleum company. Estes regularly assured his parole officer that, as required by the terms of his release, he was abstaining from business deals. He was happily working as a manual laborer, he said, and had "even washed trucks and fixed flats...