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...here's a novel that functions both as serious art and as a compelling adventure story, and manages to pull it off with a lot of style. In Port Tropique Barry Gifford does what Hemingway did in To Have and Have Not and what Conrad did in Nostromo--he conveys a gripping story line and a distinctive aesthetic. With all the control of the masters, the 34-year-old Gifford has produced an intriguing literary experiment in the guise of a page-turnes complete with palm trees, speedboats and revolutionaries...
...probe of congressional corruption. The charges against him, he testified, were just another attack by the Establishment, which he said has been out to get him ever since he left the Rhode Island orphanage where he was reared. Kelly has served successively as a lawyer in New Port Richey, Fla., an assistant federal prosecutor, Florida state circuit court judge and, finally, as a Congressman for six years. As a judge, he was impeached by the Florida house of representatives in 1963 for "lack of judicial temperament," but the charges were later dismissed...
...spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down into the teeming Amazon jungles and out to the polluted, industrial port cities and the awkward metropolis of Brasilia, the film follows its motley heroes feeling their way from the old to new. Diegues revels in the journey, sketching his way across the country recording the colors and complexities of transitional Brazil with a free hand and both a loving and sardonic...
...first whites to spend a lifetime on Puget Sound. Jettisoning a young family and comfortable life in Boston, Swan followed the feverish impulse to scrap it all and go west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly...
...mass shipyard strike was symptomatic of the conspicuous spirit of conciliation that both labor and government strained to maintain as Poland's year of peril came to a close. Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania demonstratively placed wreaths on monuments that had been erected in the northern port cities of Gdansk and Gdynia to honor workers killed by police and troops in 1970. Kania's gesture was of high symbolic importance, since it signified the party's opposition to any resumption of violence against the country's embattled workers...