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...made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet . . . it came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it, yes! Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable." Grendel soon casts off this grim, comforting illusion. Thereafter John Gardner's own fable, by turns grisly, comic and curiously touching, follows Grendel's twelve-yearlong crusade against the Danes-to force them into seeing "the mindless, mechanical brutishness...
...labor movement, meanwhile, has all but vanished. His old rival, Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, died in a plane crash last year; Reuther's successor, Leonard Woodcock, is friendly with Meany and has moved closer to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., from which Reuther had broken away. Another outcast union, the International Chemical Workers, returned to the federation last spring with Meany's blessing...
Fake Dialogue. Until now the film has been a vigorous and accomplished adventure. But during the journey, allegorical trappings descend like a shroud, suffocating much of the movie's energy and momentum. Uraz and the servant meet an outcast woman named Zereh (Leigh Taylor-Young), who promptly turns the men against each other. She even tries to get the servant to murder Uraz so that they may steal his fine white horse. Delirious with pain from his broken leg, Uraz is beleaguered by the elements, his traveling companions, and his own sense of shame. He retaliates by tempting Zereh...
...Boxing Association and other boxing authorities began moving last week to restore him to the ranks of the officially recognized, none offered even a hint of apology. Asked if he would sue to recover some of the money he might have made during his 31 years as a boxing outcast, Ali quietly said no. "They only did what they thought was right at the time," he explained. "I did what I thought was right. That was all. I can't condemn them...
...fast-talking, native American intellectuals of Camelot, the hard-nosed, problem-solving, pragmatically arrogant men who rejected the notion of failure and believed they could master the world with the American military machine. In this milieu. Kissinger-the advocate of negotiations and graduated threats-was very much an outcast...