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...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...
Even in theory the set is out of place. A jungle gym may remind one of the jungle, but it is misguided to try to cage the scenes of a highly dialectic play into once central playing area...
However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
...quick passage of the Administration bill still languishing in conference committee. The next day, both houses complied. When Johnson signed the bill into law, photographers were conspicuously absent. Only once before-in 1917-had Congress ordered striking workers back on the job, and the President was not anxious to remind his labor supporters of his role...
...didn't make it. His lawyer did remind the jury of "the presumption in the law that the jury should treat the plaintiff as an innocent man who had the misfortune to have been wrongly convicted." But, The People's attorney replied, "here is a man who has been at pains to destroy his reputation throughout his adult life, claiming damages for injury to his reputation." As evidence of that, the defense sought to introduce the fact of his conviction. On a preliminary appeal, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, ruled that the jury could consider the conviction...