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...political satire, the photo-montage in Cologne's Stadt-Anzeiger early last month was both toothless and tasteless. There sat the Shah of Iran hungrily eying a smiling former King Saud of Arabia. Into Saud's hand Austrian Freelance Cartoonist Harald Sattler had drawn a sheaf of banknotes with the Shah saying: "Okay then, make it 30,000 and you can have Farah Diba." Since Farah Diba is the proper Muslim wife of the Shah, and the Shah both a proud ruler and a properly possessive Arab husband, he found the pastiche not only unfunny but insulting...
After a fashion. During her four years as librarian of the Potma Work Camp in Siberia, she had written a sheaf of poems-but she needed government permission to publish them. To keep her self alive, she hoped to return to her work as a translator of foreign poets, but that too required government ap proval. Since her small apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara...
...Lyndon, "who shares control of such enormous power must remember that 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " Hunger. As the campaign progressed, Johnson took to carrying around a sheaf of reports from pollsters; he pulled them out and leafed through them at the slightest provocation. His walks on the White House grounds, with reporters chasing in full tilt, took on the aspect of a circus performance. His wife scoured the countryside for votes, while Luci Baines did her part...
...When tricks or ploys fail to win recognition, the Jacob complex goes underground. Another breed of undergraduate learns to content himself with imagined glories. The young Joseph, twelfth man in a line of brothers, dreams that the bound sheaves of his brothers stood round and made obeisance to his sheaf in the field...
...reached the church vestibule, when she broke down and had a good cry. Margaretha then joined 150 guests at a reception under a domed, plastic tent. "Typical English weather," muttered Ambler, eyeing the falling rain. Then the newlyweds dashed for their car, which had been decorated with a sheaf of wheat, symbol of fertility. As they drove away, Ambler caught a handful of rice in the face, remarked, "It makes me feel like a wounded pheasant." After honeymooning in Sardinia, Mr. and Mrs. John Ambler will be at home at Wilton Crescent in London's Belgravia. As compensation...