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...foster." Well, I hate to be the one to break the news, but...has anyone told you about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? Well, about these clubs....You know, I guess you could call a flooding basement an "unparalleled resource"...I mean, I know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly "unparalleled" as well. The way the right corner pocket just sucks the balls right in, like a magnet. And the cockroaches that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled...
...CREATION by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $17.95). The quest for a hidden river in the Sahara unleashes a mythic adventure. Splendid surrealism from the author of Empire...
...Mallory, the narrator, is an Englishman working for the World Health Organization in the arid northern province of a former French colony "in the dead heart of the African continent, a land as close to nowhere as the planet could provide." The southward creep of the Sahara and the drying up of nearby Lake Kotto have driven most of the native residents away, leaving the physician with hardly anyone to treat but General Harare and his ragtag band of Marxist guerrillas. But these rebel patients do not trust Mallory, because he has conceived a scheme to drill the dry lake...
Gore, up close, can strike an idealistic note, talking about starvation in the sub-Sahara and the $1 trillion spent a year "on new ways to kill people." In his stump speeches, he sounds off about engineering fundamental change rather than "tinkering around the edges." Gore does have a feeling for how such forces could affect America's future. Yet at the moment, just as the campaign spotlight hits him, he is latching on to various populist code phrases that hardly do justice to the message he could convey...
...physical endurance, but, with my family background, Eton, Oxford, the Sudan Political Service, I did perhaps think I would match them in civilized behaviour." That they do not make men like Thesiger anymore is obvious. That men like Thesiger were always as rare as water beds in the Sahara is gloriously evident in his proud and courtly autobiography...