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By the 17th century, after repeated forays, infiltrations, and invasions, forces from Manchuria capitalized on domestic upheavals in China to take power in Beijing, almost by default.
She put up with petty bad stuff too, like the constant carping of her male colleagues about her lack of a gentle touch, or the punishments doled out by the writers for her--a single mother--occasional forays into romance.
The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).
Reviewers find Léger less the "stolid, ruminative" Marxist and more the witty "virtuoso" (Robert Hughes, Time ). While they still celebrate his depictions of the early-20 th -century city, they now also notice his little-known forays into Dadaism and Fauvism.
A $100 million missile launch tonight will test technology spun off from original forays into a "Star Wars" missile defense system, according to the LAT.