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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel, Love in the Time of the Cholera, however, shows us in a humorous yet poignant way that true love is still possible. The Colombian author considers several types of love--from innocent love, to bordello love, to frustrated love, to dying love--but each form of the emotion manages to last for a lifetime...
...Buffalo (1975), the actors in A Life in the Theater (1977) and the singles-bar habitues of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, erupt naturalistically in fragments, in repetitions, in overlapping counterpoint of threats and expostulations and profuse four-letter words. Their conversation sounds authentic, yet is so idiosyncratic to its author that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about the tricky uses to which words can be put, makes Mamet a superb entertainer. He is a sort of American version of Harold Pinter, but funnier, raunchier...
...Services Otis Bowen last week, "that the Government has tried to contact virtually every resident directly by mail regarding a public health crisis." At a cost of $17 million, the eight-page booklet on AIDS will be mailed to 107 million U.S. households starting May 26. Explains the principal author, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop: "We are taking this step because the epidemic of misunderstanding about how AIDS is spread and how it is not spread seems, at times, as difficult to control as the epidemic itself...
...fact, the First Lady's oracle is San Francisco Heiress Joan Quigley, author of three books on astrology, including Astrology for Teens (written under the pseudonym Angel Star). Her name surfaced in Friday's San Francisco Chronicle, which carried a brief item speculating that she might be Mrs. Reagan's astrologer. Interviewed Saturday aboard a New York-San Francisco flight, Quigley told TIME that she was first introduced to Nancy Reagan by TV Talk Show Host Merv Griffin in the early 1970s, and has provided the Reagans with suggestions about the timing of various political events ever since...
Reunion attempts both to capture the immediacy of those old crises and to give them retrospective meaning. Unfortunately, the author has a somewhat blinkered sense of self-awareness. He rightly credits the student movement with helping to raise the nation's consciousness on such issues as black civil rights and the Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind...