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Hurley's raffish oases have names like the 4 Ever Amber Tap, Nora's Gold Nugget, Augie's Rainbow, Lovely Girls, and Joan's French Casino. The loudest and most profane action is at Joan's, a small, chairless place cheered chiefly by the muted glow of the pinball machines. Joan, a 32-year-old blonde with a foul mouth and matching disposition, is the joint's leading (and only) attraction. Alternately kissing and cussing visiting huntsmen, Joan sets drink prices by a whimsical sliding scale based on how much the traffic will bear...
...Doderer has failed to make his good document a novel, has done little more than preserve a number of variously interesting flies in an immense sea of amber." See BOOKS, Tale from the Vienna Woods...
...Realities in Amber. Like Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the ancestor of most German philosophical novels, The Demons is a search for reality. The title refers to a medieval manuscript-discovered in the course of the story and included in toto-that implies that each man's demon is a second, obsessive, false reality, which he must learn to discard or to unify with his true self...
...Doderer has failed to make his good document a novel, has done little more than preserve a number of variously interesting flies in an immense sea of amber...
...Street investors last week tried to oust Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras, 68. But the wily movie magnate outfoxed his foes with a "compromise'' settlement that put in, as executive committee chairman, Skouras' "very, very close associate" William Michel. Fingering a chain of yellow amber beads (which he uses to allay his craving for cigars), Skouras attributed his company's losses to "bad breaks," among them Elizabeth Taylor's illness, which halted the filming of Cleopatra. Moaned one investor: "We needed surgery, and we've gotten an aspirin...