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...painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism and pornography is the simple fact that the book seems utterly irrelevant. I don't know if anything worse can be said about a serious book, but Ancient Evenings...
Lawyers use drugs, breaking the laws they profess to revere. Police officers use drugs, breaking the laws they swear to protect. Politicians, doctors, teachers and parents are also users and hence lawbreakers. To whom, then, can our youth look for moral leadership...
Although Borgman has established new standards of spectator support, the Crimson faithful impressed him. "I didn't think any of you guys would be here but this is a good crowd. They swear as much as we do," he said with obvious admiration...
...drive had the Koranic code name Walfajr, for "I swear by the dawn." But Iranian leaders were also calling it "the last blow to Baghdad," and noting that it was timed to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iranian revolution led by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Declared Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Hojjatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The people expect this offensive to be the final military operation that will determine the destiny of the region...
Antonov's lawyers have demanded that their client be freed on the basis of testimony by ten Italian and Bulgarian witnesses who swear he was not in Agca's company on the day of the shooting or the two days prior to it, as Agca has claimed. This week Ilario Martella, the Italian magistrate investigating the papal plot, must come to a decision on Antonov's alibis. It may hinge on other evidence he is gathering. West Germany informed Martella last week that it had agreed to his request for the extradition of Musa Serdar Çelebi...