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...instance, art deco will again be all the rage in 1975, just as it was in 1930, and escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine-art painting of a hunter and mountain lion, eyeball to eyeball. For the Depression buff who used to have everything...
...political paranoia. This second novel confirms the talent betrayed in A Hall of Mirrors and reveals added discipline. The book has its flaws, of course. It occasionally luxuriates in baroque bleakness for its own sake. For example, Converse's addled mother is gratuitously trotted on like a lab specimen. The characters' motives, seen through moments of fragmentary introspection, are not always adequate. Still, most of Dog Soldiers is as precise as the cross hairs on a rifle sight. With fearful accuracy it describes a journey to hell and pronounces an epitaph on a time that has not ended...
...millions of fans; their loyalty kept it on the air until 1971. Sullivan's bashful, stiff-necked, tongue-tied and knuckle-crackingly nervous mannerisms won him as much affection as ridicule. Comedians competed to crack a smile on his stony face; mimics used him as a lab specimen. His malapropisms became legend. "Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer," he once intoned after Sergio Franchi sang that hymn. A shrewd judge of talent, Sullivan introduced 25,000 performers to American TV, many, such as Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Liza Minnelli...
...second floor of some palatial Harvard building, and that before me, gracefully snaking its way down to the first floor, was the finest wood bannister this side of the Andes. All the staircases at Harvard would have shivered their timbers at the sight of this bannisterial specimen, but I was calm as I edged my duff onto its perimeter, then slid down. Upon my descent, the Dean appeared from the shadows and growled, you don't belong at this college young man, and I fled out the door with a shudder...
...object of the battle is to prevent the disease from spreading by removal of the heavily-diseased elms and treatment of less diseased and certain specimen trees. But since the success of the treatment is erratic and the affliction is so widespread in New England, the removed trees will be replaced not by other elms, but by varieties of oaks and locusts...