Word: bellows
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...Saul Bellow had remained in Quebec, Mordecai Richler would be Canada's second best Jewish novelist. That would be nothing to agitate a stick at. Most of Richler's 10 novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horsemen, are inspired comedies about Montreal's Jewish community, of which the author, now 66, remains a member...
...chosen. "People presume I'm as complex as the characters I play, and I'm not. My job is to interpret what someone else has created." Indeed, during a two-hour conversation, the only moment when a glimpse of the real Spacey emerges is when he begins to bellow at questions about his penchant for playing bad guys. Still, as the actor's current hot status in Hollywood attests, weird can be a good career move...
This spring an unusual and virtually simultaneous blooming of senior novelists is taking place. Norman Mailer (see following review), Saul Bellow, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon and a seemingly perennial Philip Roth all have new works scheduled for publication. American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin; 423 pages; $26) is Roth's fourth offering in fewer than seven years, making the 64-year-old a sort of Cal Ripkin of American letters...
DIED. DIANA TRILLING, 91, social and cultural critic who wrote of literary figures, the trial of Jean Harris and her marriage to writer-professor Lionel Trilling; in New York City. Trilling belonged to an intellectual circle that thrived in the '30s, '40s and '50s and included Irving Howe, Saul Bellow, Mary McCarthy and Irving Kristol...
...supervisor, she tried to be rational. "Don't you know who I am?" she pleaded. "This is what I've been here all week for," she whined. Finally, as a Chicago firefighter broke through the crowd to see what the girlfight was all about, she let out one last bellow: "THIS EVENT CANNOT HAPPEN WITHOUT...