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...face because, she screamed, he was such a mean man. (Merrick tells the story well, and undoubtedly it actually happened. But a listener finds himself mentally handicapping everything the producer says. The feeling arises that there may be, say, a 15% chance that the girl whacked Haigh in utter sincerity, and that Merrick merely uses the incident to embellish his reputation for villainous craftiness...
...people is the year-end gathering in Moscow of a thousand-odd poets, party hacks, dairy maids and Siberian sheepherders for the session of the Supreme Soviet. At this congress of jabber and gabble, the duly elected delegates of the people hear reports on the state of the union, utter a few carefully stage-managed criticisms of same, and then, in a mockery of the ancient parliamentary power of the purse, swiftly and unanimously approve a document of high propaganda content called the budget...
...gradual revelation of Vogler's disgust with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...
...happier men watch birds, I watch men." confesses Evelyn Waugh, and in this account of two months of African travel early last year, he is as good as his word. His collector's eye for the gaudier human specimens and his ear for the strange sounds they utter are as sharp as ever. As for the prose: in the present sellers' market, no man writes English better...
...ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...