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...several who think so, but he spends little time on the question. He is more interested, throughout the book, in how women look: "Voluptuous . . . curvesome . . . shapely . . . buxom . . . comely . . . pretty . . . piquant . . . zaftig . . ." Thy Neighbor's Wife is an orgy of adjectives, and both sexes get their share. A peak of sorts is reached when Talese describes the members of the Supreme Court: "Broad-chested, sixty-six-year-old mustachioed Thurgood Marshall . . . tidy, hornrimmed, thin-lipped Harry Blackmun." Much of the book reads as if it has been badly translated: "Some inventive interpretation of the malleable wording of the flexible definition...
...Islanders whisked past L.A. and are nearing their peak. Injuries to opportunist Mike Bossy (who will play) and the slick but little-noted Anders Kallur (who won't) cloud their prospects, but goalie Billy Smith has waxed brilliant--he did not permit a goal in the last 96 minutes against the prolific Kings. The cognoscent who haunt section 308 in the Nassau County Coliseum point to the simultaneous addition of Butch Goring and loss of Billy Harris as the key to the Isles' Big Mo. Islanders...
Production at the company has not been affected by controversy surrounding the strike, Estelle Mikowshi, a factory worker at Cotrell and Leonard, said yesterday. She added that a decrease would not become noticeable for another three to four weeks, when demand reaches its peak...
...this evening, we have reached the peak of the ridiculous. Practically everyone in the two operas meets a terrible fate. But everyone in the audience is laughing...
...town of Cougar, twelve miles from the peak, people gathered in the A & R Grocery to share the latest news about the eruption. Fire Chief Richard Slayton informed the residents that if conditions got worse, they would have to retreat to a school four miles away. Many residents, at first determined to stay, grew uneasy as the rumbling continued...