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...adjacent shops and warehouses; all together, 40 valuable acres between the Louvre and the ancient, aristocratic Marais district are scheduled for "renewal." In other days, politicians working so late and so earnestly would have restored themselves at one of the inestimable restaurants on the edge of Les Halles with onion soup and a glass of wine...
...ONION EATERS by J.P. Donleavy. 306 pages. Delacorte...
...some, the flesh is more all than for others. Clayton Claw Cleaver Clementine, the hero of The Onion Eaters, has three testicles. He is descended-so to speak-from a line of similarly endowed gentry, most notably Clementine of the Three Glands. But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels...
...Hellzapoppin. Everything and nothing seem to happen, yet a considerable amount of atmosphere is conveyed. The dialogue is arch and flat, absurd and witty. Descriptions are precise and at times chastely beautiful. The scatology is consistently outrageous. Yet it is through Clementine's numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars bark" is his sole justification for the antics...
WITH its modern marble façade and its sleek steel-and-glass lines, the Palace of Congresses seems out of place amidst the ponderous 15th century walls and onion-shaped domes of the Kremlin. In the palace's vast, streamlined auditorium Russia's rulers next week will stage one of the regime's most important political extravaganzas in some time?the 24th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The Congress was to have been held in early 1970. It was delayed for a full year, indicating that the eleven-man Politburo, which constitutes Russia's collective leadership, has been locked...