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...powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture or exile? It is on this scale that I measure the privilege of being French...
Some blame diseases or parasitic infections that affect the animals' navigational ability. Others believe whales may simply become lost in pursuit of prey. Some even speculate about an atavistic urge -perhaps triggered by stress-that causes these ancient mammals to seek the safety of the land from which their ancestors migrated. The beach-bound victims are usually small, toothed whales, like the pilot and false killer. But when a whale tried to beach itself just east of New York harbor, it was a very special case...
...Since all concerned here are obviously up to date on the latest advances in crime and crime fighting, why is it that the only thing they can think to do when they want to sneak up close to their prey is put on a dress? This happens three times in Nighthawks, which is surely twice too often unless they are trying to make some tiresome point about the unacknowledged sexual preferences of excessively masculine types...
...then try to survive them. This befuddlement that cost 57,000 Americans their lives and the nation its serenity dominates the stories of the 31 men and two women who are this book. But for all the virtues of the collection--and there are several--it ultimately falls prey to the problems of the oral history genre and leaves us with more questions than answers...
...dreamer is a womanizer named Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni). Pursuing his latest prey (Bernice Stegers) into a feminist convention, the pursuer quickly becomes the pursued-by shrill women of every age and shape, from crones to teen-age punkers. All are projections of the basic, to Fellini anyway, male fear of the castrating female-though it must be said that he is weirdly fairminded. Snaporaz finds refuge in a castle whose owner turns out to be a male chauvinist of the most repulsive sort. A gallery contains photos of his many conquests: when you flip on the light behind each picture...