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ALIGHTHEARTED, relaxed garden town studded with classic temples and pagodas and elegant villas, Hangchow (pop.800,000) is China's Florence. Famous for its silks and teas, Hangchow is a favorite resort of China's leaders. Mao Tse-tung frequently retires to his retreat on mist-shrouded West Lake, sometimes merely to escape the rigors of the capital, sometimes to hold informal, substantive meetings with foreign visitors after the Peking formalities...
Fully 15,000 Zulus slogged through mud and mist for the ceremony on a hillside in one of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. Warriors rattled their assegais (short, stabbing spears) against oxhide shields. "Si-gi-di [Strength]," they thundered in unison, recalling the classic battle cry of the Zulu armies...
Hallmark Aids. Throughout, Everding has succeeded in projecting the lovers' desire for eternal night and their equation of day with destructive reality. Tristan dies in a bleak courtyard as the sun burns harshly through a sea mist. But Isolde's Liebestod brings on more aeronautics. Arms outstretched, she again appears in the firmament, looking for all the world like a "Peace on Earth" Christmas card...
...easy for the Senator to pontificate and even rationalize for doing so, but this is not the dream of a dewy Irish mist on an American St. Patrick's Day that he is talking about...
When last seen through the mist of such depressing lyrics. Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom was hustling his 6 feet 3 inches over the drab surface of Mount Judge, Pa., and away from his responsibilities. That was in 1960 at the conclusion of John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Unlike Huckleberry Finn, Rabbit had no expansive territory ahead. Tethered by circumstances, he could only enjoy what Updike calls "a little ecstasy of motion...