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...decision shook up the bureau far more than the recent congressional inquiries into abuses of the FBI'S power. "Look," explained one agent, "the guys who sanctioned that report are the bosses of the FBI. They supervise the investigations, administrations and internal inspections of the bureau-the whole shebang. If they goofed, or whitewashed, or covered up a case as sensitive as that, what have they done with others?" This same cadre of officials, for example, failed last year to find the bureau man who, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, ordered a Dallas agent to destroy...
...grabbed my nose first, and dragged it across expanses of rotting fruits and vegetables to the meat counter, where the flies were holding a grand council, preparing to carry away the whole shebang. No one but me seemed to be aware of the impending catastrophe: the butcher and his assistant kept hacking away at the three chunks of meat, prospective customers stood talking quietly in the general lassitude of a 90-degree day. Finally even the flies settled down in the warm calm...
Disillusionment and dropping out of college are by now so familiar, the experiences bear so much resemblance, that you could probably read this story like the rest. A friend recounts Kimberly describing hers: "Like they made me take this psychology course, the whole shebang, Introduction 1, rats in cages and schmuck cosmic questions. Like this exam I had to take. The first question was 'What is up?', can you believe it, what is up! What is up!" At this point Kimberly broke into a wildfire cackle that became a screech. She continued, "Well, I sat there for three hours...
...didn't trust any of it. Not me. Yes, we could have talked you and me about this whole shebang as the conceptual art it is named to be. About formal integrity and self-referentiality and art degree zero. And we could have had quite the jargon-full time of it. But there it was the merry month of May, and I couldn't see tuning in to all the fuss. Still, I just wonder whether anybody can say for sure anymore what is or is not a work...
Falling is a rare example of an endangered fictional species-a novel about a person who happens to be a woman. Sexual politics, job rights-the whole shebang-have less immediacy for 31-year-old Elizabeth Kamen than the fact that she is a daughter, a granddaughter and one of millions of people caught in that ancient paradox, the human family. Parents love their children but do not know how to nudge them out of the nest without causing serious damage. Children love their parents but cannot leave gracefully...