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...twists of McCaughrean's own imaginative fiction. Her 2004 novel, Not the End of the World, for example, describes in grim and blanchmaking detail life aboard the Ark with the zealous Noah, while all around the world drowns. And in last year's White Darkness, the best friend of Sym, a 14-year-old girl who's chronically shy and hard of hearing, is the famous (and long-dead) Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates. When a dream-come-true trip to follow in his footsteps turns into a savage fight for survival on the ice, it's only the friend...
WESTEC, now Tech-Sym. Record high stock price (1966): $67. Low (1974): 37?. Last week: 75?. Westec was a Texas-based real estate-mining-drilling equipment conglomerate that collapsed in 1966 after officers had inflated earnings and assets to drive up the price of the stock. Its founder, Jim Williams, served three years of a 15-year sentence, and is running a counseling service in Houston. Orville Carpenter, a court-appointed trustee, sold off subsidiaries and liquidated debts; managers took pay cuts of 10% to 15%. The company got out of bankruptcy in 1969 and changed its name...
...only ancient place I've ever seen whose antiquities are not on display as relics but are in daily use." People he meets on a nearby kibbutz work in the fields until the afternoon, then listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens...
...older boys) she appears to be a sex sym: bol, impure and simple as her long, sinuous body-high fashion, but with some meat on her smoothly articulated bones -slithers into closeup, her navel twinkling as invitingly as her sequins. Then, however, a shy smile splits her deadpan. As she speaks a few words of earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice...
...work by the 66-year-old Soviet composer was played in Manhattan last week by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It is in deed affirmative, at least by contrast with Shostakovich's bleak 14th Sym phony (1969), a meditation on death...