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...Halleluia! This premature Lent musci is succeeded by a frothy, exuberant and brilliant Mardi-Gras "Carnival." Clapton finally gets a move on. Though the song palls after the umpteenth kaleidoscope whirl around the muscial merry-go-round you hope again that next time, on the next track, you'll win a real prize...
...back ward and laterally through a national history that somewhat resembles the blur of civil wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...
...course, some things in life are predictable. Luis Tiant is one. El Tiante will whirl and twirl for 20 more next season and the Red Sox will return for another summer of baseball and intrigue. And sports writers will continue to come up with excuses for why their pre-season predictions went wrong...
...Randy Roguski, 16, a senior at West High School in Rockford, Ill., summer vacation meant a chance to give campaigning a whirl. Not for Jerry or Jimmy but for himself and the 39,000 other students in his school district. What Randy was working for was an increase in the tax levy, which would have brought in $6 million more a year. He lost. In a heavy turnout, the voters rejected the measure 2 to 1. Even his parents were unpersuaded by his efforts. "They just believed the money was there," he explains. But it was not. Thus the Rockford...
...tour hostess who will tell them about various points of interest-and then wind up by asking them to vote for her husband for Vice President of the U.S. Joan Mondale, 45, the Senator's quick-witted and sturdily self-possessed wife, works regularly for Washington Whirl-Around, a visitors' service operated by her friend Ellen Proxmire, wife of the Wisconsin Senator. "It's so much fun," says Mrs. Mondale. "They're all strangers I'm talking to, and that's what I've been doing all my political life. I am really...