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ILANA'S FORMATIVE YEARS are a bazaar of colorful people and firmly-held yet conflicting beliefs. The politics of her parents and their fellow traveller friends, the mystical stories of her Uncle Jakob, the Christian prety of her father's sister. Aunt Sarah, all make their way to her impressionable yet independent mind. All the passions that have moved people throughout the centuries meet and mix in the nighttime musings of an eight-year old girl and vie with each other for her allegience. Ultimately, and surprisingly, it is Judaism that wins...
...government-securities market, a freewheeling, $200 billion-a-day bazaar in which federal notes and bonds are traded, was rocked last week by the failure of its second dealer in a month. Bevill, Bresler & Schulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey-based firm, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 after admitting that it could not meet some $140 million in debts to its customers, including about 45 savings and loan associations. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Bevill, Bresler for fraud, charging that the firm secretly drained its customers' investments to make up for heavy trading losses. The failure comes...
...would have hoped that Theroux would bring the descriptive skills he has demonstrated in books such as The Patagonia Express or The Great Railway Bazaar to this new work of fiction. Unfortunately, because of its insipid plots and shallow characters, Half Moon Street will likely not enjoy the same wide readership Theroux's previous books have...
...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
...true quality thwarted. Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased. Then they will be decanted into the bazaar of postcards, datebooks, scarves-everything but limited-edition bronze ashtrays in the shape of the Holy Ear-that the Met provides as a coda. Finally, laden with souvenirs like visitors departing from Lourdes, they will go home. Vincent, we hardly knew...