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...tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead and an additional 100 missing last week after the suppression of a bizarre coup that, though it failed, cracked the veneer of Kenyan stability, which has endured during 19 years of independence...
...published in 1962. The immigrant is now 32, the year is 1909, and Anatolian-born Stavros, or Joe Arness, as his American friends call him, has finally saved up enough money to bring his whole family: "Mommah," four brothers and three sisters to the U.S. He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople. Even more important, in the two decades since Stavros' first arrival on the bestseller lists, Kazan, the stage and screen director, has learned to write...
Gauri, who has worked on the Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, proposes that the Egyptians flush out the Sphinx's salt deposits and replace part of its veneer with low-salt stone and mortar. "If the work is done right," says Gauri, "it should last as long as the stones of the pharaohs...
Last October a section of veneer in the statue's left haunch collapsed. The Egyptians postponed consideration of Gauri's plan, formed seven committees to study the problem, and began to repair the Sphinx's left side. In the Egyptian view, the main threat to the Sphinx is not from humidity but from the higher water table...
...longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard...