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...like river pike drenched in crayfish butter and will, under interrogation and a glaring light, admit that one day last summer he drove 75 miles out of his way to patronize a noted Norman chef, eating two complete meals in a gastric feat that might have made Brillat-Savarin wink in his grave...
...Texas soil in August 1959, when he crossed the Red River near Denison and was somewhat disappointed to see that the Texas side looked the same as the Oklahoma side. In the 4½ years since, he has been in virtually every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson, a Minnesotan transplanted to New York, spent a week...
Then Stalin dies. Spring is nigh, and the screen bursts with the flux of a great thaw. Glaciers move. Oppressive ice masses give way to a life-giving socialist sun, and quick as a wink all Russia is awash with sentiment. Such devices sweep Clear Skies right to the edge of a slushy cinematic wasteland. Trick effects multiply with stultifying regularity. The camera, scudding skyward, frequently pauses to record the emotional temperature, ranging from before-the-storm to lo-the-dawn...
...husband often gets more done in ten minutes of quiet conversation at one of Nicole's dinners than in a day of shuffling papers. For in Washington the dinner table is merely an after-hours extension of the office desk, and at 5 p.m., when the lights wink off in thousands of offices all over town, the working day is only half over. Then the Senators and socialites, the diplomats and department heads begin to flow in a river of limousines toward the mansions on Foxhall Road, the shuttered houses of Georgetown and the row of embassies along Massachusetts...
...Ghana. Police claimed that they had dug up four cartridges hidden in Awolowo's backyard. Although conducted with grave decorum, the trial had its interruptions. One prosecution witness complained that some of the accused in the dock were giving him the juju version of the evil eye-a wink...