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Fowles illustrates such issues through the intelligent conversations and coherent meditations of his characters-devices once common in good fiction but rare enough now to seem innovative again. Gradually, the pattern of such thoughts forms an antidote to their depressing subjects. Their wit, style, grace and refinement offer not a shelter from the storm (the refuge of the dandy) but a vantage point from which the storm can be most thoroughly observed...
...always sees print. Some editors subscribe to a feature simply to keep it out of the hands of a competitor. Syndicated scribblers are also accustomed to having their more controversial works suppressed, a frequent fate of Jack Anderson's sometimes steamy disclosures and Doonesbury's acid wit. Such censorship, however, can boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract...
Amphibian Bondmobile. Series getting awfully ingrown. Sexual innuendo coarser. In London HQ, Bond reported to be on assignment in Austria, meaning he's doing you-know-what in front of fireplace in Alpine hideaway. Thunders M: "Tell him to pull out-immediately!" Only moment of real wit: amphibian Bondmobile drives into sea and becomes two-seater submarine; it veers to elude underwater pursuers, but only after flashing turn signal-for the wrong direction...
Rubber Whale. Charlotte Rampling is on hand as one of those movie scientists whose precise discipline is unexplained but whose function is to ex plain - and explain - to the less enlightened that they must not underestimate the wit and sensitivity of the animal kingdom. This is a big mistake. Melville - even Peter Benchley - understood that it is best not to humanize the creatures of the deep too much. They are more frightening if perceived as imponderable forces...
...half shell-with champagne to wash it down. The boy spent summers in Europe, attended private schools in Massachusetts, and took his degree at Yale. In New Haven he had his own piano and, despite hayseed check suits and non-U Midwestern ways, ingratiated himself with wit and melodies. One of his undergraduate efforts is still mandatory half-time fare at Yale football games. His grandfather ordered him to go to law school. Instead, Cole, with the secret approval of his mother, majored in music at Harvard...