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Joseph McElroy's startling first novel, A Smuggler's Bible, was about a man trying to invent a world and then smuggle himself into the lives of his invented and remembered populace. In the author's second novel, Hind's Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result...
Pushing a Point. No one was pleased with Intercept-no one, that is, but the Nixon Administration. Washington's idea was not so much to stop the drug flow; not even light planes teamed with ground radar could spot every airborne dope smuggler. The object was to force Mexico City to do something about the illegal but large-scale cultivation of marijuana and other narcotics throughout the country. To emphasize the point, the U.S. made it clear to Mexico that it was ready to press the drive for at least a month...
Walk on Water. At sea, the two remaining contestants in the first singlehanded, nonstop sailboat race around the world are trying to better the record of 312 days set last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles...
...baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina) was once the petite amie of gunrunners. Along the trek she cuts one midget ex-associate dead by blithely plunging scissors into his neck; eventually she runs off with another smuggler. Ferdinand finds the violence catching and, in an explosive finale, he erases all points of the triangle...
There is, however, considerable evidence that Evtushenko has denounced fellow Russians who have been imprisoned after political show trials. At a poetry reading in London in 1962, he contemptuously called Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's great love and the model for Dr. Zhivago's Lara, a "currency smuggler." Mrs. Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written...