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...number of 9-inning games), their batting averages can be computed instantaneously (2 for 9 is .222, 3 for 9 is .333, 4 for 9 is .444, and so on, through the order). And 9 is a priceless aid to shopkeepers, who will keep on charging $9.99 or $49.95 till the end of time. In binary terms, 9 is 1001 -- the number of adventure and romance; in England you dial 999 for emergencies (to reverse, perhaps, the diabolic effect of 666). Yet 9 also has an edge to it, the menace that comes from lying along a fault line...
...revolution, and the chaos that has followed it, has also raised a new argument for delay. Says Neil Malcolm, a Sovietologist at the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs: "We do have to wait with massive financial aid till things are sorted out in the Soviet Union. We don't even know at this point whom the money should be sent to." Should it be distributed through a central government that is losing power every day but is still the legally constituted authority in the country? Or should it be channeled directly to the republics, regardless of their...
...ever enjoyed, to fill his pages with reminiscences of his friends, to dash off 1,500 letters to a starlet named Brenda Venus (with whom, just before his death, he enjoyed an unlikely but passionate friendship). And even when inspiration failed him, Miller simply kept writing and writing till he broke into epiphany. No one who ever wrote so badly wrote so well...
...aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal confrontations and detailed descriptions of marine life and death -- everything, in fact, but background music and special effects. Wait till next year...
...till the very end of the film, when King Richard pops up, portrayed, in a surprise appearance, by an actor who has launched many a grand movie adventure, will audiences get a glimpse of epic star quality. Then, like the Merry Men, they will unleash a hearty ho-ho. The rest of this Robin Hood merits only...