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...determination to retain its monopoly, the AAU recently declared that all athletes participating in meets sponsored by the NCAA fostered Track and Field Federation were ineligible for Olympic competition. As this would amount to nearly all U.S. track performers, the country's olympic future began to grow pale. Because the ineligibility ruling was based on nothing but "paper" jurisdictional considerations, the feud bean to look more and more ridiculous...
...Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. Always provocative, often perverse, the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time successfully juggles a dead poet, a live scholar and an imaginary land...
...this might have made an apt subject for contemplative derision had it not been for a solidly built man standing on a rock above the scene, wearing pale brown prescription glasses, a white lumber jacket, and a cowboy hat over hair that flew straight back like porcupine quills. This was George Stevens, beyond question the most respected and probably the most able director in the American film industry, whose reputation was assured by movies like A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is now risking it by betting that he can tell The Greatest Story...
...pale heroes, Miss Duckett does best by Hincmar, whose Annals are the major source of her book. Hincmar lived 74 years, spent 40 of them in Prankish courts and divided his time between dark treatises on predestination and darker plots. Hincmar's cold spirit is the only one that comes alive in the book and, seen in his final years, working tirelessly to bolster the inept rule of Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, he seems the only man in the century who grew half the height of Charlemagne...
Dogs & Caterpillars. Stern is a tall, round-shouldered man with fat hands and "pale, spreading hips" whose job is to write descriptive literature on labels. His wife is large-eyed, long-nosed and sexy, his lonely eight-year-old son spends most of his time sucking on a blanket. Stern moves them to the suburbs, buys a house for $23,000, and at once begins to suffer the consequences...