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...Conroy's mammoth new novel "jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving...
...array of telecommunications services, lift longtime limits on how many TV and radio stations one company may own, and remove an 83-year-old restriction on foreign ownership of telcom companies. If a similar House proposal passes, the result could be a free market bazaar that would -- asbill author Sen. Larry Pressler(R-S.D.) predicted today -- "result inlower telephone rates, lower cable rates and more servicesto the American public." But a leading opponent, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), warned that such swift and massive deregulation would only strengthen telecommunications giants.TIME's Suneel Ratansays the bill constitutes a grand, laissez...
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR
...personal note here: a minor reason for the imaginary Powers' revulsion is that Lentz and several colleagues cackle mercilessly over a newsmagazine's qualified praise for Operation Wandering Soul, the real and fictional author's fourth novel. This modified rapture (written in real life by this reviewer) pomposifies: "a prodigiously talented manufacturer of literary astonishments, which is not exactly the same as being a good writer, though he is that...
DIED. STANLEY ELKIN, 65, darkly witty, language-obsessed novelist; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Missouri. Author of 17 books, Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for George Mills, which-in a plot typical of his absurdist bent-follows a thousand-year lineage of losers with the same name, from a misguided medieval crusader to a furniture mover in present-day St. Louis. Elkin remained a prolific writer despite suffering from multiple sclerosis...