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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California's university system, the country's largest, about 33% are temporary. Nationally, of 700,000 faculty, 30% of professors in some of the liberal arts are not permanent; the percentages range downward in other fields. Emily Abel, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of a book on college employment, says of the growing race of gypsies, "They're like any part-time employees that McDonald's would hire . . . cheap labor that colleges and universities are relying on to save money...
Atwood's writing is formidably disciplined; she keeps her characters at a distance. The finest piece in this collection, The Sunrise, suggests some of the author's strategies. Yvonne, an artist, follows men whose aspects interest her. She tracks them down in the street and induces them to pose for portraits in her studio. She never chooses subjects with "capped-looking teeth," who display themselves as if their faces were "pictures already, finished, varnished, impermeable." Instead, she prefers odd-looking men, like a punk artist with an orange Mohawk, one of her most inspired characterizations. Yvonne suspects that...
Philip Caputo, author of A Rumour of War, commanded a platoon at Danang in 1965. He describes in his book how some of the veterans tried to describe to the inexperienced Marines what it was all about, and how the new recruits refused to listen. "They had already been where we were going, to that frontier between life and death, but none of us wanted to listen to them," Caputo writes. "So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its own war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same illusions, and learn the same...
...shoot movies abroad, beyond the easy control of studios. Hollywood's civility, soured by the blacklist that the studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain that adultery once was shocking, and in other chapters, that Hollywood's casual, persistent racism and anti-Semitism in the '40s accurately reflected the larger society. His tone avoids the traps of moralism and amused superiority...
...always eat the pages of the year's most beautiful, lavishly illustrated cookbook, Roger Verge's Entertaining in the French Style (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $45). The food photographs are as tantalizing as the table settings and the sun- dappled, impressionistic outdoor scenes in the south of France, where the author operates the three-star restaurant Moulin de Mougins...