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...witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail that collapses. Pulled to safety by his nemesis, Barclay reluctantly admits: "It seems I owe you my life...
...does he owe Tucker his Life, authorized and handsomely bound between hard covers? Barclay postpones the answer by escaping once again into aimless, inebriated travel, leaving a trail of bogus forwarding addresses. By this point, Golding reaches for his old standby, the clamoring metaphysical question. Does Barclay flee because he is afraid of being saved or damned? Who is Halliday, the mysterious American billionaire who has given Tucker seven years to win Barclay upi as a trophy? Broad hints are dropped that the author and the critic have begun to exchange identities. Barclay asks the American: "How come you speak...
...politics are those of anarchy. The group's 185 pieces of seating, storage, fabrics, rugs and accessories, produced over the past three years, loudly refute the tubular chrome-and-black-leather commandments of accepted modern style. Their form follows fantasy, and they owe more to the media messages of Marshall McLuhan than to the Bauhaus minimalism of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Memphis' latest whimsical collection of 66 pieces went partially on view earlier this month at the trendy Grace Designs showroom in Dallas, the Janus Gallery in Los Angeles and the Limn in San Francisco, and will...
...have to be radical to believe in divestiture. One only has to believe in self-determination. Perhaps Damon's less radical approach will avoid the alienation of "the system" which has hampered Harvard's divestment in the past. But I'm not sure of that either. Perhaps I owe the anti-Silvers position a word of thanks. It is increasingly hard to believe in "the system" and working within it when it is engaged in artificially propping up apartheid governments. It is difficult not to become alienated by "the system" when it creates "Advisory Committees" to, at least in part...
...lending its manpower to Walter Mondale, says he is "going to vote for McGovern because he's the only one I can listen to and hear real liberalism. George has been right on the issues for so long, and he just got ruined in '72. I think we owe...