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...author's strength is her unfailing immediacy of language, which illuminated her fine previous novel Stones from the River. Her scenes, as character grates on troubled character, are real and vivid; they command attention. But the book's structure might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with. (Hegi's dedication is "For my women's group"; is there a clue here...
...Schuster; 235 pages; $22) of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strengths -- an unfailing immediacy of language and real, vivid scenes that command attention -- are all on display. But the book's structure, saysTIME's John Skow, "might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with." What we're left with is a plot straight out of a bad soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...
...concern was natural. Dole has a grueling job even without the monstrous demands of a national campaign, demands he knows well from bitter experience. After he lost to Bush in 1988, Dole figured his chances at the White House were shot. As a loyal Republican, he couldn't imagine challenging a sitting President in the 1992 primaries. Then came the diagnosis of prostate cancer in 1991; he underwent surgery in December to have his prostate gland removed. Finally, Clinton's victory in 1992 seemed to herald a Democratic rebirth that would leave Dole sniping from the sidelines in his position...
...prices have shot up more than 50% in the past year, advertising in much of the country is soft after years of recession, and circulation at many papers is flat or declining. In recent months the Houston Post and the Baltimore Evening Sun have joined the casualties. And a bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News has opened the possibility that only one of those two papers will survive...
...these cost-cutting spasms that the stockholders think are important, they put some pressure on Mark Willes not to degrade quality," comments Bryce Nelson, interim chairman of the University of Southern California school of journalism and a former L.A. Times reporter. At New York Newsday, some staff members are bitter because they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday...