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...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
...makes its way by post between these points. "The new octogenarian feels as strong as ever when he is sitting back in a comfortable chair," the author observed. "In a moment he will rise and go for a ramble in the woods, taking a gun along, or a fishing rod, if it is spring. Then he creaks to his feet, bending forward to keep his balance, and realizes he will do nothing of the sort...
...syndicated rerun of a 21-year-old episode of The Twilight Zone called Miniature, he is transported into new dimensions not only of sight and sound but, for the first time, of color as well. As Duvall's dollhouse sweetheart comes magically to life, the set of Rod Selling's stark black-and-white classic is suddenly painted in rainbow hues...
Single people speak of other single people as being "geographically undesirable." Such is traffic. The morning paper ran a feature on people driving around with entire wardrobes hanging from a rod suspended over the back seat, the easier to spend the night far from home and go to work the next day in a fresh outfit. "Liberation," said a liberated woman reader, "has turned us into goddamned gypsies...
...however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that he would launch a complicated...