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...people in this work do not bemoan their pathetic fates; they swallow the never-ending bits of bad news and go on, only to be rewarded sporadically with tiny, almost imperceptible, triumphs. The largest of these victories over rotten circumstances belongs to the shy daughter. Tillie, who successfully mounts a science fair project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into...
...imprisoned for hanging partisans, but was granted amnesty after only three years. Flabby and bulb-nosed, the "Black Prince," as Italians refer to him, was kicked out of the neo-Fascist Parliamentary Party for extremism. Three months ago, he told a newsman that "the state is so rotten it will not even be necessary to give it a small push." Last week a warrant was out for Borghese's arrest on grounds that he had tried to push...
According to ornithologists, the distinctive yap-yap-yap call and drumming of the large (19 in.) ivory-billed woodpecker have not been heard in significant numbers in the U.S. since the late 1930s, when all but a few of the birds were wiped out by loggers who cut down rotten, grub-filled swamp timber on which the woodpeckers fed. Now an official of the National Audubon Society named Robert Manns claims that he has heard one woodpecker's cries in the desolate Santee Swamp, near Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Public Service Authority has heard Manns. The authority, which...
...snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement, he and his audience were "sensitized to criticisms of each other...
...Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...