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...even a reader who cannot identify with the author's rude stereotypes is likely to feel the urgent excitement of these books. Author Rogers possesses theatrical flair and truly grand vulgarity. Her books are built, like action movies, from a rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with...
Delights!) in license rude, and like the Jove...
...conference, the four black delegations studiously ignored the white Rhodesians. Nonetheless, the first two sessions were remarkably free of either the histrionics or the rude scenes that were feared by some of the Western observers. Joshua Nkomo, a moderate and the elder statesman of Rhodesian black nationalism, spoke first. To emphasize his conviction that Smith must play no significant role in the transition period, Nkomo stated that the conference should be one "strictly between Zimbabweans [Zimbabwe is the black African name for Rhodesia] of whatever color ... and the United Kingdom," which still technically retains sovereignty over Rhodesia. He vowed that...
Carter's election and the weakness of the Republicans do not indicate a trouble-free Democratic administration, Arterton said, adding that Carter will have "some rude shocks" when he attempts to reorganize the federal bureaucracy...
...field of science, Teng and the other moderates were scornful of the radicals' insistence that all research be related to immediate agricultural or industrial needs. "The Academy of Science," Teng said, "is an academy of science; it is not an academy of cabbage." To all such rude comments, the radicals replied with a statement of pure faith. "Revolution," argued one of them, "can change everything, modernize the economy and develop science and technology...