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...typical day at Etzion, at 10-sec. intervals, a flight of pale blue Israeli-made Kfir jet fighters hurtled off the runway in follow-the-leader sequence toward the south. Looking up at the streaking planes, a senior officer mused, "We will take with us whatever is economical to take. The rest we will destroy...
Callas, the artist, is a respected but pale figure in this book. Nor is there convincing evidence to explain the major psychological puzzles of her life: the cruel loathing of her silly mother, her odd artistic decisions. But if Stassinopoulos, 30, is deficient as a biographer, she is a good reporter. The child of a business consultant in Athens, she went to Cambridge University in England. In writing Callas, her great break was the cooperation of the singer's godfather Leonidas Lantzounis. After he read a draft, he gave her the candid, affectionate letters that Callas had written...
Interstate 5, south of Modesto, is one of the most desolate and dreary stretches of road in the world. Skirting Bakersfield. Fresno, Chico, and Merced, it slices north through the unending flatland of California's Great Central Valley. It is a road of dust and heat and pale skies and dull landscapes and garish billboards peeling under the baking sun. Most of the year it is empty...
...before Morrison forcefully diverts attention from her love story to some serious conflicts in the Street house. Valerian and Margaret do not share a bedroom. He spends most of his time in a greenhouse tending feeble plants that might flourish if left outside in the trade breezes. Ghostly pale, Margaret lies in the shade and believes that her son Michael will finally visit her. In the kitchen, Ondine, Sydney's wife, cooks Main Line specialties and fumes about the unreasonable demands of her boss's wife. Ondine also harbors a dark secret about...
...Prince of Darkness, if there are blackguards and blackmail, black thoughts and black deeds? To be in the dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images of whiteness can be terrible too, of course (the white whale, whited sepulchers, death on a pale horse), but these are fairly concrete things compared with the general designation of black as the color of evil or chaos. Young John Grimes is named for dirt. He observes the dirt around him, and recalls the book of Revelations (22: 11): "He who is filthy, let him be filthy still...