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...excels Le Carré in sense of place???particularly when the place is secret service headquarters. The sunless corridors, the peculiar amalgam of research, bureaucratic fatigue and hostility are brilliantly rendered. Power struggles become palpable: Smiley's conversations brim with silences and ambiguities; throwaway lines can hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies?the Americans...
...crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale's profit, go for such baubles as yogurt makers, $30 peanut-butter-making machines, "male chauvinist pig" neckties (30,000 sold so far) and even "Pet Rocks" that, at $4 each, roll over and play dead, sleep and stay in place???all on command. This market, Bloomingdale's has learned, enjoys tasting but does not stand still long enough to savor. It thrives on variety and excitement...
...Here, three weeks hence, Japan's Expo '70 will begin a six-month run. It is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia, but amid its architectural anarchy the occasional pagoda or the batwing sail of a Chinese junk seems oddly out of place???and time. From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape of spires and saucers, globes and polyhedrons, sweeping carapaces and shimmering towers of aluminum, glass and steel...
When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place?...
...Vyshinsky, the public prosecutor [at Moscow]: 'In the struggle for the realization of the harvest, one of the principal places by rights belongs to the organs of Soviet justice, Soviet law and prosecution [which must act] in regard to a full preparation?where this has not yet taken place???of reaping machines, the supply of spare parts, of oil products for the machines, and the completion of working plans for harvesting, and the struggle against harvest losses...