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...turn out to be the literature of dope, double-cross and revenge. The best of the current thrillers, many by little-known writers, reflect a move out from the cold war caper to a wider, well-plotted world of skuldruggery and high technology. The new books cover the map from Cozumel to Copenhagen, the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. Their post-Bondian hardware ranges from a Guppy-class submarine to the world's biggest tanker, the Dragon M-47 antitank rocket to the Soviet Dragunov rifle. In most cases, the hero is motivated by the heroin, but there...
...Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented the plan...
...laughed; it was a virgin and a king and a samaritan and it mourned. It was fettered to its passions and ruled whole nations. It fumed at fortune and men's eyes and celebrated its own appetites. It passes still, and the writer who sets out to map the plays and poems ends, as Critic Leslie Fiedler once did, with "not another book about 'Our Shakespeare.' but one about 'Shakespeare...
Wabash offered Navarro a chance to "retool" his football fundamentals in idyllic isolation. He succeeeded in putting the school on the map by leading his squad to an 11-2 record last year as the Little Giants were runners-up in the NCAA Division III national championships. Navarro's unparalleled success earned him the district American Football Coaches Division Coach of the Year award...
...what Director Peter Brook has achieved in his whirling, boisterous version of Shakespeare's long, intractable tragedy, which opened last week in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play is not very often produced: exclusive of intermission, it runs 3% hours and with 42 scenes is as sprawling as a map of the Roman Empire...