Word: besottedness
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DAMAGE by Josephine Hart (Knopf; 198 pages; $18). Erotic obsession is a risky subject for fiction. No matter how besotted the victims of this malady may be, their behavior is likely to strike mere witnesses, i.e., readers, as distasteful, hilarious or both. This first novel, whose author is a London...
War abroad did not make us any more peaceful at home. A man in New York City was acquitted after he cut up his girlfriend for throwing him out of her apartment and served her stewed finger to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. The jury decided he must have...
Does any of this matter? As far as Pynchon's books are concerned, no. Yet in this celebrity-besotted era, the spectacle of someone avoiding exposure is naturally intriguing. And Pynchon's fiction, with its emphasis on suspected conspiracies and coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a...
Sir David was wrong; for in Cannes, the Brits were proving they have the world's most vital, varied cinema. Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives -- the best film at the festival and the winner of a critics' prize -- portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty...
"Sometimes a student is besotted with a particular idea," says Stone, who advises Organizational Behavior special concentrators.