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...glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
...same judgments apply to Conversation in the Cathedral, a long, layered tale about indolence, greed, violence, corruption, sexual perversion and general animal cunning in modern Peru. The novel is a vortex of determinism driven by one central question: "At what precise moment,"asks the leading character, "had Peru-itself...
Scientists disagree sharply about the cause of the earth's cooling and whether it will continue. But a flood of observations by weather satellites and other new instruments show its major effect: a gradual expansion in recent years of the so-called circumpolar vortex-the great icy winds that whip around the top and bottom of the world. Those winds move generally from west to east, but the outer edge of the vortex twists and bends, like the bottom of a large, swirling skirt. In the U.S. Far West, for instance, the winds bring down cold, dry Arctic...
...most devastating influence of the circumpolar vortex has been felt in a broad tropical belt stretching round the globe. As the edge of the great wind system reaches closer to the planet's midriff, it has blocked moisture-laden equatorial winds. No longer have they been able to bring needed rain to such diverse areas as India, parts of Central America and West Africa's Sahel. Already suffering from years of overgrazing, the Sahel has dried up so badly that the Niger River can be forded by foot for the first time in centuries. In effect, the Sahara...
...public. "The English have a reverence for theater," he says. "They all want to be actors." Shaffer knows that audience viscerally. In this respect he resembles Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, both of whom managed to write hits about such then queasy subjects as drug addiction (The Vortex) and homosexuality (Ross). Like them, Shaffer possesses an apparently flawless intuition about how much he can shock the audience without turning it off. Coming from a nation that reveres horses, he shrewdly placed a completely nude love scene-which might otherwise have caused a fuss-just before...