Word: penguine
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Along with the Chinese birds are two great auks, an extinct relative of the penguin. "No other museum has more than one," Paynrwe says...
...need replacements for these men. How about the astrologer at Harvard Square? For two bucks, he'll tell your fortune. For four, he'd probably run Appalachian State College. What about the penguin in Bloom County? Is he a college president? Why not? He's dressed...
...leading role, and everyone around her is genial enough, the movie does not quite deserve its promotional association with such predecessors as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice day at the beach: nothing wrong with it, but nothing much you can remember about it either. Sheer...
...produced a substantial body of fiction which has gathered a wide spectrum of admirers (especially in Britain) But Trevor's work has never received quite the same amount of literary attention that has been enjoyed by many lesser contemporary British writers. So it is a very good thing that Penguin has brought out an edition of his five collections of short stories to coincide with the publication of Trevor's ninth novel. Fools of Fortune...
FOOLS OF FORTUNE by William Trevor; Viking; 239 pages; $13.95 THE STORIES OF WILLIAM TREVOR; Penguin; 799 pages...