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TRAVELOGUES are as old as literature itself, but Blue Highways is more than anything an American work. A feat like Least Heat Moon's would be almost inconceivable anywhere else--to travel thousands and thousands of miles, from Nameless, Tenn., to Dime Box, Tex., to Bagley., Mon., to Cape Porpoise. Maine, and never pass outside the U.S. border, except for a small stretch of southern Canada. The faces of small-town America are as varied as their climates and geographies, from the Creoles of Louisiana to the Navajos of Nevada to the Yankees of Vermont. Yet if Blue Highways shows...
...this reporter the Harvard athlete's emphasis on victory first became clear about a year ago. A few weeks after an uncharacteristically poor performance by a talented Crimson athlete (who shall go nameless), the athlete was asked why she hadn't mentioned that she had had a very good reason for her poor play...
...nameless killer is at large, and he has not only the cunning to leave few clues but the twisted ingenuity to invent a new form of murder. Even after he is caught and convicted, if he ever is, the terror that he inspired is likely to live on, and with altogether too good reason. There have been mass murders that were more brutal and claimed more victims. But there have been few if any so exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear...
...closed the books for lack of enough evidence to warrant an indictment. New accusations were raised that Donovan had met with known mobsters to arrange no-show jobs for Mafiosi at Schiavone work sites. Donovan consistently denied all the allegations, last week branding them "groundless charges made by nameless accusers...
...Freshman Week for the Class of 1983: swimming tests, ice cream "bashes," and fervent 4 a.m. philosophical debates with nameless people from across the hall. Sex came up as a topic of conversation now and then as well. And at the center of all this frantic activity was Catherine Oxenberg, queen of the facebook, object of the collective lust of Pennypacker 25 and countless other male suites across the Yard...