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...broadcasting to the U.S.S.R. the entire text of Gulag in Russian, and, later, extracts will be beamed in 17 other Soviet languages. Moreover, the 606-page paperback Russian-language edition, printed in Paris on onionskin paper, and only %½ in. thick, could pass unnoticed through Soviet customs in the vest pockets of Western travelers...
Firmly against too many liberties where dress is concerned, Burger has ordered Clerk Rodak to draw up a new, more detailed dress code. Rodak reports: "It will say that male lawyers should wear a dark suit, with a vest if possible, a conservative tie and black shoes." Women will be discouraged from wearing sweaters or pants. "The dress," says one Justice, "should be appropriate to a serious undertaking such as a court proceeding...
...interlocking motives of the Widmerpools and the two Americans suggest that Powell is heading toward some conclusion about sex, death and power. By the end of Kings it has not emerged clearly. Will his finale be an elegiac, dying fall? A vest-pocket apocalypse, with history hounding his characters as relentlessly as mortality? Hard to say. But he leaves his characters frozen in poses and gestures that have enough teasing significance to keep readers ruminating until the final volume comes...
...hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie Brodkorb. He is wearing a purple vinyl Vikings jacket and a little feathered purple felt hat. "Thank God I like the color purple," says Lois, whose loyalty extends down to her purple fingernails, matching purple velveteen pants and purple satin vest...
...innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody -- the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory -- at this point the movie gets boring -- he makes fools out of the cops...