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This venerable institution is as arcane as the balance of payments; its rules are as precisely obscure as the contents of a diplomatic note. To the outsider it presents a blank wall, but to the insider--and the insiders number several thousand government officials, 1200 Washington reporters and numberless foreign governments--a working knowledge of the ways of the informed source adds zest to the reading of the daily newspaper...
...organized within this community, local temples will be in the marketing center, and clans or families have their influence in certain areas. This approach shows how the Chinese peasantry in their vast numbers over this limitless countryside were put together in the old days and developed over a thousand years or more. So the commune today is in modern terms a similar use of this structure roughly the same size. Skinner was able to estimate that there are roughly 72,000 of these units and the communes when reduced to their eventual size were something on that order of magnitude...
...cases. He sued a retired police inspector who had arrested him and who had written a series of articles saying that he was guilty. The libel jury awarded Alfie $3,640 in damages. Using the same theory, Convicted Train Robber Goody planned to nick The People for a few thousand quid...
...film to a standstill. His lunatics are self consciously carefree, crowning the bewildered soldier their king of hearts, capering about the streets in a parade of spats and parasols. The warring troops are composed entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved the town from destruction, sheds his army uniform, and appears naked at the gate of the asylum. The timeworn moral: the inanities of lunatics are preferable to the insanities of armies...
...19th century-he was an enormously popular writer. Hardly anyone knows him today except as the sick mind who, like the Marquis de Sade, lent his name to the glossary of psychiatric terms. This first English-language biography by a journeyman translator and biographer (Pushkin, Brighter than a Thousand Suns) tries hard to deal coolly with its subject, but Sacher-Masoch was such a bumbler that the reader cannot take him seriously. The poor fellow was really a kind of romantic, who always hoped to find the worst in women and hardly ever did. He was born...