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...South Bronx, as Fireman Smith sees it, is a prison taken over by the inmates, who still think anything wearing a blue uniform is a cop. They turn in about twelve malicious false alarms a day to Smith's company alone (in Greater New York, MFAs are now coming in at the rate of 90,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pyromanticism | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because her blouse had been ripped...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...house lights faded. Some hysterical flunkie welcomed everyone to the Big Event--concluding, "And the poet..., the poet..., the poet(!) is YEVTUSHENKO!" The lanky frame of 38-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko filled the spotlight. He wore his usual uniform of a gray turtleneck sweater and slacks. In his broken English, the Soviet poet indicated that between performances he had been upstairs in the main sports arena. "I promise to return and fill the main stage," he said. "Who says America doesn't like poetry?" Whether or rather how America likes poetry is not the immediate question; the question...

Author: By Richard Dey, | Title: Yevtushenko: Lightweight in a Heavyweight's Garden | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...this dude starts leaning forward across his belly and looking real clear at the depty who's doing all the talking and starts wavin' the shotgun around his finger-like it's a fuckin' toothpick, man--and the deputy is a little skinny guy whose uniform is all trim and tucked and he says...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...heart that could swell to fill a novel, but that it has the delicacy and the tease to contain itself as a story. There is none of the relief of such an overflow in the stories of Flannery O'Conner. The heart of her stories purrs so uniformly that one suspects it is only a machine. One lifts the hood to marvel at the mechanism. Uniform excellence, uniform inspiration. The result is that her stories differ one from the other as much as a Chrysler, Ford or Chevy differ one from the other...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: The Complete Stories | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

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