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...name was being bracketed between those of Borges and Nabokov in the fabulists' Hall of Fame. When Italian Folk Tales was translated and published in the U.S. in 1980, Calvino's exquisitely simple retellings of traditional material won richly deserved praise. Somewhat lost in the acclaim was the fact that the book, so different from the author's fictional experimentations, had been issued in Italy in 1956. Similarly, Marcovaldo (1983) offered a series of short stories in time-lapse translation. Calvino had not, appearances to the contrary, suddenly reverted to the methods of postwar neorealism; these were...
...psychology, says that "many books have been written about the psychology of sex differences, but the majority haven't been deep or profound. Carol is one of the few people who has written an insightful book on the subject." But McClelland says that while Gilligan's work has received acclaim in the academic community she has "quite a way to go to develop empirical backing for the female perspective she describes...
...televised hearings, which seethed with daily testimonies of bribes and beatings. Mulroney and his fellow commission members received several death threats and were given round-the-clock police guards. The panel's 600-page final report led to 24 indictments. Emboldened by that burst of public acclaim, Mulroney decided to run for the Tory party leadership in 1976. He barnstormed the country, flying by private jet and giving lavish lunches for party regulars. Many Tories, however, were uncomfortable with Mulroney's slick style and free-spending ways. At the convention, he was shoved aside in favor of another...
...parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places...
...black combatants carried some unique burdens. They were, particularly during the earlier phases of U.S. involvement, doing a disproportionate amount of the dying. They were bearing arms against nonwhites in a cause that was increasingly dividing blacks as well as the entire U.S. And they came home not to acclaim (few Viet Nam vets received that) but to reminders that racism was still a fact of American life. Terry decided that this story should be told and that the blacks involved should tell it. He chose his narrators carefully: grunts, noncoms, officers, from all four branches of the armed services...