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...although the best-selling author isn't offering up one of his 800-page tales of intrigue before Labor Day, there are plenty of big thrillers in stores and arriving shortly. Three of the most talked about, Brad Meltzer's The Tenth Justice (William Morrow; 389 pages; $23), Steve Alten's Meg (Doubleday; 275 pages; $22.95) and Don Winslow's The Death and Life of Bobby Z (Knopf; 259 pages; $22), have already been optioned for the movies...
...visit, director Richard Eoin Nash's rather loose adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt's Der Besuch der Alten Dame, deals with the return of Claire Washer, a not-particularly-prodigal daughter, to her home town of Slurryville after her transformation into Claire Trumpefeller, multibillionaire...
Appeals Refused. On past Christmases. Berlin was the meeting place for families divided by East and West. From the Communist East Zone came die Alten, the old ones-elderly people who clung to pensions, apartments, old circles of friends, rather than escape to the West. The East people would file up the damp stairs of Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin, take the elevated, and ten minutes later emerge into the neon-lit bustle of West Berlin. There they were met by relatives, led to well-heated apartments, treated to chocolate, cigars-and pineapple, which is scarce in the East Zone...
From the Ruins. Viennese have stuck to their love of the city's glorious monuments, and they are slowly rebuilding them. Above all comes the restoration of their Alten Steffel, or Old Steve, whose marble floor many a citizen kissed during holiday services...
...Alten Fjord. Finally, in September last year, came the night when three X-boats (known to the Royal Navy as "Tiddlers") cruised off into the North Sea, After a voyage of nearly 1,000 miles they reached the mouth of Norway's Alten Fjord...