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Other items of concern among student leaders present included ethnic graduation ceremonies, where students of one ethnicity come together to celebrate graduation apart from the standard ceremony...
Perlman, a friend since their Cheers days, describes Alley as "totally nuts, out of her mind. She's beautiful and wacked out at the same time." Alley's comedic strength, says Perlman, lies in her ability to play "a woman on the edge, about to fall apart, emotional yet with a sense of humor." Says Danson: "The more nervous she is, the more outrageous she gets. It's one thing to be terrified and stick your toe in the water but another to be doing a cannonball into the water. Kirstie does cannonballs...
Their object was, of course, to kill. In that they succeeded, unleashing a blast that could be heard miles away as it blew them apart, killing four Israelis and wounding almost 200 more. For the second time in six weeks, paramedics and police raced to handle grisly carnage on Jerusalem's streets: a little girl's body lying mangled in an alley, a headless corpse resting nearby, arms and legs scattered everywhere, blood sprayed on the front of a bank, bits of flesh left for ultra-Orthodox volunteers to scoop up for burial...
Readers of Deborah Eisenberg's earlier story collections, Transactions in a Foreign Currency and Under the 82nd Airborne, already know she writes like a dream, both figuratively and literally. Her gift for projecting a variety of moods and voices sets her apart from the usual, narrowly focused short-story writer...
...apart, as indicated by the range of Eisenberg's new collection, All Around Atlantis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 244 pages; $23). Anna, of the title story, recalls her childhood living with her mother and the buried memories of aunts and uncles who died in Hitler's death camps. Overheard scraps of dinner-table conversation are not enough to reconstruct the past, so Anna uses her imagination. She starts by picturing a single barb on a wire, "its taper, its point, its torque, its dull gleam...