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...White House days reading his reports and memos, talking openly and even naively about his proposals and aspirations, reaching out always to his public as if he were onstage. His faith in himself has been renewed in church and prayer each week. But as yet there is a singular detachment from the act of governing as it has been understood in the past. In truth, Carter's inexperience may be so great that he has very little notion of what he has done or failed...
...nightmarish blunders. Detergents that make dishes gleam may kill rivers. Dyes that prettify the food may cause cancer. Pills that make sex safe may dangerously complicate health. DDT, cyclamates, thalidomide and estrogen are but a few of the mixed blessings that, all together, have taught the layman a singular lesson: the promising fruits of science and technology often come with hidden worms...
...necessarily the stuff of which good mysteries are made; anyone who believes otherwise should take a long look at the marvelously improbable tales of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. What distinguishes Cussler's attempt from a genuinely good mystery a la Holmes or Poirot is the author's singular inability to create any distinctively human characters. Cussler's figures are worse than wooden: the neurotic physicist, dashing American agent, villainous Russian spy and confused but loving heroine are all solid concrete stereotypes that wouldn't even pass muster in a remake of "The Adventures of Superman." And the dialogue...
...could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake Erie, contributes to its singular attraction for snow. Since fall, Buffalo has been smothered by an incredible 14 feet of snowfall. Last week drifts as high as 30 feet buried the roads in the area, paralyzing all business and movement. Winds up to 85 m.p.h. generated a numbing chill factor...
...mood is elegiac: "For an instant I see the sky, the different skies, then they turn to faces, agonies, loves, the different loves, happiness too, yes, there was that too, unhappily." It is a twilight thought, stated carefully enough to stand up to the pressures of Beckett's singular vision: happiness is hard to bear and hard to do without...