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...cult of Darwinia surrounding his personal escapades almost transforms him into a character out of a P.G. Wodehouse novel. He played in the 1921 British Amateur Championship and eliminated the last American contender in the field. That same night, Darwin was accosted on a lonely street by a mysterious stranger who bellowed, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...after all, much different from the majority of magazine and newspaper publishers in America. He is a shrewd businessman whose only goal in life has been to make a million bucks fast. The established press is anxiously trying to disown a man who is by no means a stranger to the system; Larry Flynt and his magazine are the logical extensions of that system. Magazines like People, Cosmopolitan and New York probably have more in common with Hustler than they do with the New Republic; most journals sold in this country pander to less-than-noble interests. Larry Flynt...
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...Taxing Deductions," the theme song of the "almost clever criminologist," Inspector Quentin Thornblade, who tries to think like the great Sable in an effort to outwit his criminal mind, or haunting as in "The Runaways," Brenda's plea to Sable to return home, or romantic as in "A Perfect Stranger," the love song in the play. But all the lyrics are so perfectly set to the music that the seem to have always belonged there, like the jewels that stud Lady Beatrice's pendants...
SUCH A SENSATIONAL best-seller must have some redeeming qualities; but if they exist, one must look further than the plot to find them. Raise the Titanic! disproves the common notion that truth is stranger than fiction, for the outlandish twists and turns of Cussler's novel would defy detection by even the most dogged Woodstein. Loosely translated, the book is the inspirational saga of how a top-secret group of brilliant government physicists devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high...