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December is usually no time for second thoughts about shopping. This is the merry month of mall hopping, a season of spending all the money that has been larded away -- and then some. But wait: this may not be Christmas as usual. America's jingle-jangle shopping spree seems muffled...
But, what ho! The love of her life lives on, as Buttercup discovers when she is kidnapped in an inane attempt to start a war between the two countries of Gildern and Florin (why not Pound and Shilling?). The devious designs of her kidnappers are foiled when she is snatched...
When pressed on the point, Tambs said, "They have a saying in the Foreign Service: When you take the king's shilling you do the king's bidding."
Other unusual delights kept cropping up. "Any King's Shilling," a new ballad about his grandfather going to war, and "Sleep Of the Just" came across as powerful Richard Thompson-style folk tunes. His reworking of "Inch by Inch" from the personal low LP Goodbye Cruel World redeemed that song...
The Masai are a handsome and arrogant and elegant people, filled with a serene self-satisfaction that amounts to a collective narcissism. Whites in East Africa for generations have been infatuated with the Masai. Yet certain details of their lives, like the flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids...