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These ten stories steer misfit characters on wildly futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does...
...visas are limited to 24 hours. Burma is indubitably a sovereign state, has outlawed the Communist movement, and has signed a border agreement with Peking. Its high-stepping military, duly cheered each year on Armed Forces Day, is relatively stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than at the end of a disastrous war as the French did in Indo-China...
...Peter O'Toole) as a rather winsome, late Victorian Walter Mitty. A grand kid, but accident-prone. On a giant split screen, Jim visualizes such wild exploits as saving his captain from buccaneers. And the audience is warned by this literalism that Writer Brooks in tends to steer through Conrad's prose with stopovers in all the wrong places...
During the previous two weeks of his Selma drive. King had tried to steer clear of legal violations-particularly of breaking Selma's 1963 ordinance that bans "any parade or procession or public demonstration on the streets or other public ways of the city, unless a permit therefor has been secured from the council." Thus, in sending his followers to the county courthouse to try to register, he had carefully instructed them to move in groups of four or five, keeping at least 20 ft. apart...
India's top industrialists are normally a tight-lipped group. Forced to steer their organizations through the red tape regulations of a government-dominated economy, they rarely sound off in public, disguise their occasional criticisms as quiet suggestions. Now, angrily and in public, they are issuing a warning to Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's socialism-bent government. Cut taxes or see India's industrial growth halt completely...