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Higgins writes conversation better than he does anything else.. Descriptive sections of Eddie Coyle still his best book, could never stun readers the way the dialogue does. Even at its most clumsy Higgins's descriptive prose still serves as respite and counterpoint, amplifying the impact of his characters' talk. In his last two-books, on the other hand, there are few pages with anything but dialogue. Even indirect quotation is entirely abandoned: a clear sentence like the one beginning Eddie Coyle ("Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns...
...history, and pleaded with every else to just forget about Vietnam. The dead wouldn't mind, the theory seemed to be, and the living could trust in the benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...
...year old Poor covered the court well and employed a devastating array of sharp angle and three-wall shots to stun Whitman, who last week at Penn established himself as the number one collegiate player in the country...
Paschke's figures, on the other hand, are repulsively actual. Remarks Critic Schulze: "he projects his motifs, like emasculated wrestlers and deformed mutants, in order to engage and stun his audience, not to edify it." This is, if anything, an understatement. Paschke's art is cold as a fish and, in its handling and sleazy color, twice as slimy. But its sheer perversity of style-which extends even to such innocuous images of gaudy Latin American show biz as Amor, 1970-sticks in the mind (and the craw) like a hook...
WHAT IF THE P.O.W.S HAD BEEN THERE? One former P.O.W., Specialist Four Coy Tinsley, said that he felt that if there had been prisoners at Son Tay, the guards "would probably have annihilated them and moved out." The Ivory Coast planners obviously felt that surprise would stun the enemy. "They never had time to get together," Lieut. Petrie said. "They never expected an American force to come blooping down on them." Had the prisoners been there, though, there would have been many more guards?and their rifles could have damaged the American helicopters seriously. Indeed, some critics of the operation...