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If we annoy him, the annoyance must be somehow necessary to his pleasure, the rising of it sweeterfor the last tug of a defeated gravity--as feeblenow, as faraway, as being anybody's son or father.For he seems all gaze, nudging a dollar toward her.
Block Islander Ellsworth Lathan assured me that his fellow-islanders refer to peat, once widely used for fuel, as tug .
That assessment will overrate Paul's post-Beatles output--in particular, I'm guessing, the music he makes next, just as Tug of War was overrated in the wake of John's murder--and underrate his work in the Beatles, an explosion of pop craftsmanship without precedence, overshadowed by Lennon's mediagenic personality and subsequent martyrdom.
Technology will never end the tug of war.
Elián has been roped into someone else's game: He is the center of an "international tug of war" in the WP lede and a front-page LAT caption, and the "center of a political tug-of-war" in the USAT . The NYT turns him into "the central object in a tug-of-war."