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...Clockwork Orange, with which it is being compared, but in some ways it comes close. It's good enough in its first 50 or 60 pages of atmosphere setting, all smoke machines and flashing strobes, that the reader blinks, shakes his head and wonders whether Noon can sustain the weirdness. The answer, as shapes become familiar in the fog, lies somewhere between "no," "sort of" and "too mad to matter...
Because of its trivial role in real matters, the council is left to issues which can only be described as insignificantly autoerotic, at least from the viewpoint of the common undergraduate: constitutional reform (but who cares?), member expulsions and the provision of circuses. These are the issues that sustain the council and give it life, like pumping stale sugar water into a half-dead body to keep it alive...
...Crimson (2-4 Ivy, 4-14 overall) beat Columbia on the road last weekend to end a 10 game losing streak. But Harvard could not sustain its momentum the next day, falling to Cornell...
Perhaps most engaging are Edmunds' interactions with nature--in the form of personified plants. These pieces are short enough that they can sustain themselves to the end, without the scarlet-hued melodrama of death or memory fading them. They are appropriately infused with sunlight by more lively color images. One of Edmunds' most vital poems, "Willows Coming Into Leaf," has haiku-like impact...
...speeches that Clinton kept coming back to. As he said at his first bull session on Jan. 9, ``What got me to the White House, what I campaigned on, what I've been doing for the last two years, is an argument I want to sustain, and I want to sustain it with clarity...