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THERE ARE NO FLIES on John McPhee, only the slightest lines of sweat, not enough body odor to warrant mention. His writing is clean, disinfected. Everybody says his prose shines; as usual, everybody is right. But it's the comfortable shine of a well-oiled set of carpenter's tools, fresh from a whetstone. No dancing hot shine of flame, nc shine of the evening ahead playing off fender chrome...
Things are never as bad as they seem, however. Sometimes they are worse. But, come rain or shine, coke or gin, Marlboros or Lucky Strikes, guys or girls, you're pretty much stuck with that name on the computer print-out with the long-distance phone number and the address in Summit, New Jersey...
...possibly not up to the job, an undercurrent suspicion goes, well, they said that about Ike once, and look what they are saying now. In other words, this impulse instructs voters to mistrust any unfavorable judgment of Reagan now as a hedge against future revisionism. Reagan borrows some shine from Eisenhower's retrospective glow...
Though the sun did not shine much, a couple of players did. Bjorn Borg, 24, rolled to his fifth straight title, setting a record of 35 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 28, the most graceful player to take Centre Court in a generation, outclassed Chris Evert Lloyd to capture her second Wimbledon title...
...play underwent some major revisions. In Los Angeles, Sarah was so proud and isolated that it seemed unlikely that anyone like James would ever love her. In New York she is still proud, but Frelich allows her own radiance to shine through, making Sarah infinitely more attractive. The producers were nervous about how audiences would react to a play in which one of the two leading characters never speaks a word, but their fears obviously were groundless. Children is doing so well that a road company is al ready being planned to set out across the country in November...