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...shallowest points, it can take eight hours to cross on foot and is impassable much of the year. We use a pirogue that Kuroda's team has built to resupply his tiny station. Parched by the precarious walk to this point, we cool ourselves with the absolutely pure waters of the Ndoki as we pole through the river grass. Fay thinks he knows why the Pygmies have historically kept to the west side of the river. With ample game in the more accessible forests, they have had no need to risk a crossing. At this point, though...
...afternoon I'm all sweated out and parched, but still we see no sign of water -- or of the Pygmies straggling behind us. At one point Fay sees a thick vine and says, "Aha!" He hacks off a section at just the right spot, and pure water spurts into his mouth. I grab his machete and hack away but manage to taste only a few drops...
Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" is a pure joy to read. This is quite ironic considering that the title characters are named after two philosophers who had rather bleak views of human nature. The adventures of mischievous and precocious six years-old Calvin and his quiet, reflective, stuffed tiger Hobbes a not only capture a child-like sense of fun and adventure, but also at times see as social commentary. Watterson's recent leave of absence is understandable give his wonderful consistency. It must be imaginatively exhausting to continually come up with stuff this entertaining. Perhaps the strip...
Though Barbara Cartland has just written a new romantic novel, The Kaiser's Ball, not all is pure and Aryan in popular culture. A newspaper critic complains about the "pernicious Negroid wailings" of an unnamed group of young Englishmen from Liverpool who are playing to packed audiences of German youths in Hamburg. But Adolf Hitler is still hale, for a man of 75; and in the U.S., President Joseph Kennedy, also 75, is planning a state visit to Berlin to quiet rumors of supposed Nazi human-rights violations against Jews during the war. His trip will make clear the solidly...
...most of the well-cast Peaches lineup (which includes Madonna as a sexually outre outfielder), playing in the league is pure pleasure, a larkish flight from hometown constraints. But Davis, an entrancing mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...