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...page without loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...
...husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened in the den and kitchen, this henpecked hacker remained master and monster through it all?at least on the courts...
...necessary evil is dangerous and flawed. The fact is that the purpose of torture, more often than not, is pure and simple repression of all opposition. Moreover, once torture is sanctioned, even against genuine terrorists, the network of torture has a way of becoming a Frankenstein's monster, finding reasons for a continued existence even after its initial tasks have been accomplished...
...public feeling lends the novel a universality Sabatini nowhere else achieved. In the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, he has made one of the subtlest villains in romantic literature, a good man perverted by a bad idea (aristocratic privilege excuses any crime) into a perfectly sincere monster. In Scaramouche, the hero, he has created his Hamlet...
...cameras. The Canadian Olympic Radio-TV Organization (ORTO), with a staff of 1,850, will supply video coverage-as many as twelve live signals simultaneously to broadcasters from 70 countries-that will be beamed abroad via three satellites. Says Mason: "We've created a monster-but a friendly...