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...gunshots of May 15 ring out a few more notes in the swan song of democracy, I should think that both of the major parties' candidates would, if only for their own protection, summon the courage to stand up to the adherents of gun ownership and make meaningful federal gun control an issue in their respective campaigns...
...both limpid and mysterious, and this is largely the result of Westermann's loving attention to craft. He manipulates his repertory of boxes, laminations, dovetails, locks, hinges and clamps with unerring finesse. The effect-as in the absurd log-cabin toy tower that rises, with a metal swan flapping from its crenelations, inside the box called Battle of Little Jack's Creek, 1970-is to convince you of the utter reality, the solid presence, of a completely surreal world, pinned and glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist...
Nixon walked the Kremlin grounds in the first mists of morning, laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, talked hunting with Brezhnev and fishing with Kosygin. He rode a hydrofoil on the Moscow River, saw the Bolshoi dance Swan Lake and told those around him that when he gets back to Washington, "I will close my eyes and see it all again...
Sinclair's demonic duo first appeared in his 1967 novel, Gog. Like Magog, it was a witty, often brilliant fusing of legend and flesh, satire and swan song. Gog began with a seven-foot-tall amnesiac washed up on a Scottish beach. He proceeded, dreamlike, toward London, where he found his true identity as a wealthy Celtic scholar named George Griffin...
...This summit is primarily directed towards substance, not cosmetics," said the President. Nonetheless, on their first evening in Moscow, the President and Mrs. Nixon will be honored at a state dinner in the Kremlin. Later they will watch the Bolshoi Ballet, which will probably present one act each from Swan Lake and Giselle. The President may also visit Star City, the cosmonaut center near Moscow, or be flown to see an unmanned space shot at Baikonur in central Asia. More important, he will be accorded the privilege of making a short television address to the Soviet people. Pat Nixon will...