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...trail is like a 4,000-mile spider web, a tangled maze of routes ranging from yard-wide footpaths to short sections of gravel-paved highway two lanes wide. The system threads westward out of three North Vietnamese passes (the Mu Gia, Ban Karai and Ban Raving), which cut through the Annamese mountains, then loops south and east for 200 miles, reaching a width of 50 miles at some points. Studded with lumpy hillocks, the trail network cuts through the precipitous terrain and dense, triple-canopied jungle growth...
...night world of San Francisco, Fillmore Slim, Soulful Spider and Bobby Joe from Baltimo' practice the same profession. All three are black players in "the game"-pimps in the world of prostitution. They and about 40 of their fellows, along with the hundred prostitutes who support them, are the principals in a study submitted to the annual convention of the American Anthropological Association. That study is about to earn a Ph.D. and a professorship for its author, a shapely, 27-year-old redhead who, as "Tiger Red," recently completed a stint as a topless (and sometimes bottomless) barroom...
Elegance is all-important. Describing a pimp in a clothing store, Soulful Spider observed: "His eyes get big, and he gets to buying things like plum pants, shirts and socks. Oh yeah, they colorful, colorful, colorful, soulfully colorful; colors that would definitely make a rainbow look bad." About jewels worn at a party, another pimp rhapsodized: "There was one cat out of Miami, believe it or not had a diamond between his teeth, that's right. Had his ears pierced, had a diamond hanging out of his ear. Now that's what I call a lover...
...just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis...
...networks let Nietzsche take its course: the superhero abounded. Birdman pulverized wrongos with solar power. Spider Man flung his webs around the villains. The Fantastic Four included The Thing, a repulsive brute who destroyed his enemies by stomping on them. Some cartoon shows dispensed with animation entirely. Marine Boy showed a static caricatured face with human lips that spoke the lines...