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After Denktas.' proclamation, Makarios denounced the "utter contempt" the Turkish Cypriots had shown for the negotiations and requested an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council; it is expected to begin debate on the issue this week. As for partition, Makarios added, Greek Cypriots would "resist and if necessary sacrifice" themselves to prevent...
Molelike Creatures. On the opening page Gill seems to side with Ross. New Yorker writers, he claims, "tend to be lonely, molelike creatures, who work in their own portable darkness and who seldom utter a sound above a groan." In theory, no one who was not there gives a damn about this loving reliquary -anecdotes, old cartoons, floor plans and interoffice memos. Might it not be more fun to curl up with a rollicking treatise on varieties of corn blight or infrastructure at the Bank of America...
...nausea. No sharp pain. A mild disgust, and a quick defensive rallying of your forces. Your wits are keyed to concert pitch, nothing can escape you, you are intensely self, conscious. You have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
Considering the thudding banalities they are forced to utter, the actors man age a lively display of cocktail-party intelligence. Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it. Frank Langella turns out to be the drollest character onstage with his stubborn macho pride in the size of his tail...
...shrewd party bureaucrat who over the last year has performed many of Chou En-lai's duties, was promoted to First Vice Premier and elevated to vice-chairmanship of the Communist Party (there are five other Vice Chairmen). The appointment accelerated Teng's spectacular rise from utter disgrace during the Cultural Revolution (when he was branded "the No. 2 capitalist reader," after Lui Shao-chi) and gives him an official position that accords with the great power he wields. Many observers feel now that Teng has moved to first in line to succeed Chou, or at the premier...