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...intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...
...Keyes literary style, which is as smooth as clabber, is to hook connective tissue to a lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they...
...they come? A girl all flaxon haired commented to her friend in smooth tones that left a vapour-trail of sophistication--meanwhile throwing a partly used ice cream cone down before her--"I don't normally come to these meat markets, but I was thirsty...
...been anywhere but in Mississippi. State highway patrolmen - from the same force that had walked off the job as mobs howled their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux Klan had plied them with doughnuts and coffee...
Business at First Sight. That is the only old-fashioned thing about Raquel, who pursues her career with the smooth precision of a modern computer. Chicago-born and California-raised, Raquel, now 24, was a Neiman-Marcus model and played a few movie walk-ons before she met her programmer, Press Agent Pat Curtis. It was business at first sight. Two weeks after their first encounter, they met to plan her career in minute detail. Now, they share and share alike as equal partners in a company in which Raquel is the chief asset-an asset that Constant Companion Curtis...