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...Merely to introduce Bonaparte into destiny's pages requires a recapitulation of the entire French Revolution. The Durants compress that cataclysm to 152 pages-an entertaining but misshapen account. The causes of the infamous Terror are summed up in a brief section, leaving the reader reeling under a scattershot assault of dates and statistics. The guillotine devours French leaders at such a bewildering pace that the list of names often reads like a body count, not a narrative. Later chapters pondering the fate of other European nations influenced by Bonaparte's power - England, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Spain...
...spend four times as much as campers but also generate six times more jobs, seven times more income and over five times as much tax revenue for the area. Using these and similar studies, state and community planners hope to devise strategies for balanced tourist growth. Rather than employ scattershot advertising, such as Maine billboards with the inane slogan LOVER COME BACK TO ME, for example, many states could emphasize such qualities as clean air and uncrowded roads. They could also take the strain off overcrowded, ecologically fragile coastal resources by developing and promoting relatively unspoiled inland areas. "Tourism...
...more threatening military position than at any time since the signing of the Paris Accords. If the Communists successfully hold Ban Me Thuot, the city would become the second provincial capital to fall this year. That would be a major psychological defeat for Saigon. In addition, the Communists' scattershot assaults along Route 14 may enable them to consolidate their hold on the entire strip of mountainous territory that borders on Cambodia. More ominously, with the Central Highlands as a staging area, they are now in a position to strike toward coastal provinces, thereby cutting South Viet...
...guitar and mandolin had won him a reputation as a good musician who could juice up anyone's record, and he played behind everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Everly Brothers to Paul Anka. His work on the sound track of 1970's Performance, a movie of scattershot brilliance about a gangster and a rock star, further keyed up interest in Cooder's own album debut. "I think the people at the record company expected some kind of wild-assed rock-'n'-roller," Cooder recalls of that first solo album. "I gave 'em something...
...that this verdict was delivered at the end of a trial which, the judge declared, centered on whether Chambers was telling the truth. Belfrage is too busy rushing on to spout another unsupported statement: "With respect to the Bomb, the Russians were fully capable of making their own..." This scattershot method, of course, was invented by that famous American political leader who once said that if this story didn't work, he had another which would: the junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy...