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Author Weesner, a professor of German at the University of New Hampshire, tries to air out his novel with long, wistful passages recounting Glen's bittersweet entanglement with a married German woman when he was a young soldier. These sections work as a love story but, told in retrospect, simply point toward the hero in sour middle age. Scenes of the Berlin Wall coming down are clumsily atmospheric; East Germany is free and Glen at last has his divorce, but the connection is stagy. Maybe the moral is, Write about what you know, sure, except if what you know...
NOBEL PRIZES: Bittersweet Honors...
...real life, love keeps running far behind in the polls to the authors' passion for politics. The courtship of Mary and James (as they call themselves in the alternating monologues that are the book's format) is re-enacted in a single 11-page chapter and merely augmented by bittersweet scenes of them pining at a distance. The uninitiated may find it startling that Bush's political director (Mary) was besotted with Clinton's master strategist (James), but political Washington is smaller and more inbred than Lake Wobegon. Now if either of them had been in love with a tree...
...late, bittersweet autumn of a career that has spanned nearly half a century, French President Francois Mitterrand, 77, faces a wintry political future. Constitutionally barred from running for re-election, with his Socialist Party in disarray and repudiated at the polls, he must vacate the Elysee Palace, after 14 years in office, when his current seven-year term expires in May 1995. But Mitterrand seems determined to leave power with his reputation intact and with his massive place in postwar French -- and European -- history clearly established...
Still, the last week was an emotional bath for both men, who have worked together for 19 years, ever since Katzenberg joined Eisner at Paramount Pictures. "Bittersweet is a good way to describe our parting," says Eisner. "I wished that Jeffrey were 10 years younger and didn't have the normal and natural ambition to move on." He felt he was at an executive-clock- ticking moment, and those things happen...