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...Navy lieutenant was off duty and out of uniform. For a shopping trip in downtown Riyadh, she had put on an abayya, the head-to-toe, long-sleeved robe that Saudi women usually wear in public. That wasn't good enough for the mutawa, the vigilantes who enforce Muslim religious laws against impiety and immodesty. A member of the group accosted her as she was entering a shop, prodded her painfully with a long stick and berated her for neglecting to veil her face. A merchant rushed to her defense and explained that she was an American, part...
...were very aware of the big line," Taylor said. "They are great in transition and can tic-tac-toe the puck right into the net if you are not careful in the neutral zone. That's why we tried to skate the line of Blaeser, Kaufmann and Maltby against them all night...
...like being on the inside and looking through a peephole," he said. Olejarz's elastic art covers his entire body, from head to toe...
...careful, fool the eye into betraying the body. Just when you think it might be safe to go out in a thigh-high mini, the fashion oracles say it's the year of the catsuit. I'm going to wear a neck-to-toe unitard in public? No way. I have only to think ladies' room (worse: airplane lavatory) to dismiss such a pernicious garment from my wardrobe. What sensible woman wants to reveal her every -- and I do mean every -- curve and bulge? And who wants to look at them...
What spy novelist Len Deighton tries here must be nearly impossible: winding up a closely plotted six-volume thriller -- lugging all the bodies offstage and making sure that each one has a tag attached to a toe -- and still writing a creditable novel. He makes a good job of it with a clever change of focus...