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...making its fourth pass at the runway. Villagers in the nearby hamlet of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) suddenly heard a series of explosions. Tramping by torchlight across muddy potato fields, they found the red and silver tail of the Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 sticking out of a cold brown pond. Beneath the water, or on the fields across which the plane had skidded, were the bodies of all the passengers and crew. Unofficial reports indicated that they numbered 176, which would be the largest loss of life in the history of civil aviation...
...Charles's self-questioning with the good old Freudian image of the mirror: Charles in front of a bathroom mirror, wondering where the blood on his hands came from; Charles seeing himself twisted in a shiny bar counter; Charles at home seeing his reflection and Helene's in a pond. And in this last image is represented a certain success for Charles in his quest: he has fallen in love with Helene, his father's wife, whom he calls mother...
...couple of pieces in Museums seem to have been included to show the author's versatility. One is a whimsy about a group of one-celled pond-water creatures attending a cocktail party. Thurber could do this sort of thing well. Updike can't; except for Bech, a Book, his humor rarely breaks loose from cleverness. For the rest, there is a series of short stories about one of Updike's condescended-to suburban couples, called (smugly) the Maples. The first is very good indeed. It concerns Dick Maple's wobbly, not very creditable reactions when...
...onlookers faces. And when we start to go downriver. Boorman's eye guiding Vilmos Szigmond's camera picks up the release of a smooth-skimming canoe when it catches the current, the disruptive churn of a sudden patch of rapids, the collected stillness of a stoned in pond...
...Cambridge draft board has a new location this year, having moved over the summer from the second floor of City Hall to an office in the Fresh Pond Shopping Center. The City Hall draft board office was the scene last year of a noisy confrontation between antiwar demonstrators and Cambridge Mayor Barbars Ackermann, whose offices were nearby...