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...PIGEON FEATHERS AND OTHER STORIES (278 pp.)-John Updike-Knopf...
...with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended before he could kill any Germans. But Puller was soon blooded while fighting bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, where he was known...
...finding an enemy under every rug." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who got a two-minute ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 13,000 in Cincinnati, pleaded for unity: "Let's forget about being Nixon Republicans or Rockefeller Republicans -stop trying to pigeon hole ourselves. We're not far apart. From the middle of the Republican road to the far right is a mighty small...
...sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets," says Plumpfoot at the final curtain, "and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! All lanterns lighted! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks!" "Diffuse and absurd," wrote Vienna's Express, "grotesque and bacchantic...
...Suddenly the shameless hussy runs off to marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses to fly back to the coop. Bang! Dead pigeon...