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...work a 12-hr. shift on it each day, the 20-storied South Marsh Island 73-one of 6,300 oil platforms and drilling rigs stretched across the coastal gulf-is both a punisher and a provider, a harsh, demanding and dangerous mistress. And yet the island gives as awesomely as it takes. Located 103 miles offshore, its pipelines stretch thousands of yards across the ocean floor. Drawing from seven big reservoirs 7,000 ft. beneath the primordial ooze of the gulf, it can pump 28,000 bbl. of crude oil to the mainland each day through...
...failed poet, a failed novelist, and a drop-out husband," Hartley has a mistress but he remarks with a straight face that female bodies interest him "less than female minds." Like many Jones characters he suffers from acute typecasting. As narrator, moreover, Hartley can be tiresomely chatty when extolling food or explaining that a beer at the Brasserie Lipp is called un serieux. But what weary reader will not thank him for such mercifully brief love-making moments as this: "I suppose we did just about everything that two people do together...
...would walk a block out of one's way to cut him dead. Put him down in a maze or a sewer and he would run as hard. Michael's social self is pathological. With colleagues, he does not talk, he connives. As for women-including his mistress Rachel Roberts-he never makes love with them but at them. Even his father's death elicits a distorted reaction. The old man has been beaten by a Liverpool Teddy boy. The Irish cronies, suddenly repossessed by memories of the Black and Tans, keen for revenge. Marler coshes...
...York made clear. Rivers' output is a highly intelligent mixture of both. Black Olympia is an example. It is one of Rivers' retakes: a version of Manet's famous painting in the Jeu-de-Paume with a black servant girl offering flowers to a white mistress. But Rivers made two images, one with the black maid and the white girl, the second with the roles switched. The political point about racism and master-servant relationships is concisely made. It stems from a seminar Rivers had in Portland, Ore., several years ago, when black art students bombarded...
...extols the virtues of the grocery list as pop art. By night she is an intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where she is mistress to the leader. Playground palaver is easy to ignore when at dusk in the arms of your lover you will play a pivotal role in a plot to blow up the George Washington Bridge...