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...eighth and by far best book, Alice Hoffman creates characters so true to their moment in time that future generations trying to reproduce life in a Long Island suburb in 1959 could use this as a blueprint. Hoffman introduces us to Nora Silk as she is moving into a little box of a home, so much like the others "that children wandered into the wrong house for cookies and milk." Her feckless husband, a magician who cannot even get hired for children's birthday parties, has left her and fled to Las Vegas, where he hopes to perfect his lounge...
...relationships in general, and they are the ultimate skeptics when it comes to marriage. Some young adults maintain they will wait to get married, in the hope that time will bring a more compatible mate and the maturity to avoid a divorce. But few of them have any real blueprint for how a successful relationship should function. "We never saw commitment at work," says Robert Higgins, 26, a graduate student in music at Ohio's University of Akron...
...something like the affiliated sovereignties of the E.C. turn out to be Canada's future design, the relationship will not be simple. Europe's growing pains show just how complicated a revised political blueprint can be. But the Community's progress does suggest that some flexibility with the traditional concept of the nation-state may be a rewarding course for industrialized countries in the future. So when the baseball season is over, thoughtful Canadians may again be ready to turn from competition to cooperation...
...deft, taut fiction, but also as the book that showed the way out of the quagmire of glasnost. Ian McEwan, a British novelist who is a breathtaking master of nasty fiction (The Cement Garden), as well as a few sentimental excursions (The Child in Time), has written a blueprint for the future of the genre. The key is not in nostalgia, evoking the bleak era when real men wore raincoats, but in the brisk assumption of a '90s vantage point, leaving the author free to make all kinds of moral and social comments -- rather like choreographing the doings...
...Japanese promises, the vague U.S. statements made little mention of how the goals would be accomplished. Nonetheless, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills commended the "progress and hard work on both sides." Hills called the deal "the most ambitious effort we've seen from the Japanese. It constitutes a clear blueprint for reform...