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...city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal...
Stahr cannot credit, either, the fact that there are some people who might decline to share his dreams of patchwork celluloid. Kathleen Moore, a girl Stahr sees as his own perfect romantic vision, a shade of his dead wife, does not even go to the movies. "Why not?" Stahr asks her, seriously puzzled. "Millions of people do. Movies give them what they need." Kathleen contradicts him. "What you need...
...turnabout from last season's patchwork offense should come from a clearer understanding of the part each player is expected to play. "I think we know what our roles are going to be this year," says Irion. "We're more together. I don't know if that wins games, but it certainly helps...
...presents Beckett's art as something to be read and heard, not to be secreted away and hacked to bitty ideas. Unfortunately it undergoes the "filthy synecdoche" of an anthologiser, but still this book provides a good patchwork of the textures Beckett has woven...
True, the Yankees did win the pennant by beating the Kansas City Royals. But they did it with a patchwork of many of the best players in the American League, only four of whom came up through their farm system. Thurman Munson and Roy White, two of the Yankees who made it up from the Syracuse farm club, will be no match for their Cincinnati counterparts, Johnny Bench and George Foster...