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...cathedral, 3,000,000 pilgrims a year file past his marble tomb. Also in the gallery, until recently, was Brother Andre's heart, preserved in an urn filled with a formalin solution. Then on the night of March 15, in one of the decade's more peculiar crimes, someone stole the heart...
Baseball is obviously the best dominant metaphor for a book of this kind. It's got everything: pioneer individualism and a territorial imperative much more basic than football's corporate effort; a hockey, circus atmosphere peculiar to the American brand of mass hysteria; a dying smell about it; a system for making heroes in the center spotlight; an evangelical twist. It's got politics and it's got religion...
...Marxist renaissance is a peculiar phenomenon. By any empirical standard, Marx's major prophecies-such as Communism's triumph over capitalism or the outbreak in industrialized societies of the workers' revolution-have proved false. No economy based on his teachings has approached the efficiency of a free-market system, and governments that tried to enforce his Utopian views have been compelled to rely on totalitarian methods. Nonetheless, Europe's expanding middle class is discovering to its horror that its sons and daughters are increasingly hostile to industry, "the System" and even to the established left...
...Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good deal more assured, but like the film's peculiar ending, that assurance still seems a bit like a charade...
...trial brings into rare public focus the strange status of prostitution in Poland and other East European countries. Officially it does not exist. According to Communist dogma, the world's oldest profession is an evil peculiar to capitalism and has no appeal in a socialist state. In fact, prostitution flourishes in many parts of the East bloc, and nowhere is it more evident than in the big-city hotels frequented by Westerners...