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...There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking questions...
Such shopworn conceits abound in Sabbatical, plus stories within stories, objets trouvés (newspaper clippings) and many, many footnotes. In other words, Earth is up to a lot of his old tricks. His performance this time begins with the end of a nine-month Caribbean sea journey by Susan and Fenwick. They have steered their cruising sailboat back to its starting point in Chesapeake Bay. thus describing "the closing of the circle." Now what? They have failed to make certain decisions while at sea. Should Susan have a baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick...
...years later, Carpio was arrested again in El Salvador. He has described how he was tortured during his nine-month imprisonment: his feet were beaten with iron bars; whippings severely damaged his left eye; and a hood was tied around his head to cause temporary smothering. In 1954 the Salvadoran Communist Party sent Carpio to the Soviet Union for several months. He returned to El Salvador to continue organizing workers. In 1959, inspired by the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Carpio formed the United Front of Revolutionary Action to train workers, students and peasants for armed rebellion...
...Learning to tap dance at 35 is like having a truck run over you every day. It's real punishment," says Steve Martin of the nine-month regimen of instruction he endured for the film Pennies from Heaven. The musical drama, scheduled for Christmas release, is based on a 1978 BBC series and not the breezy 1936 Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression...
...institution steeped in traditions: the round of handshakes before its conferences, the help the Justices give one another in donning robes before taking the bench and, each year, the barrage of weighty decisions during the term's final days. Sure enough, last week the court ended its nine-month session with several rulings that, while overshadowed by the Iranian assets case and the Agee passport decision, nevertheless remain significant...