Word: books
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaper reported, for example, that during interrogations at police headquarters, suspects were routinely handcuffed to metal chairs, questioned for as long as 24 hours and often beaten. The officers sometimes were careful to leave no bruises: one technique was to cushion a suspect's head with a phone book and hammer it with a heavy object. But on other occasions, the newspaper reported, officers beat suspects with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles, handcuffs, chairs and table legs. At times, other suspects were forced to watch the beatings through one-way windows and told by officers that they would...
...camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Christopher Isherwood wrote the lines 40 years ago in his novel Goodbye to Berlin. The author is about to celebrate his 75th birthday, and he is still clicking away. His latest book, titled My Guru and His Disciple, depicts his relationship with Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk Isherwood first befriended in 1939. To be published early next year, the memoir takes care of what Isherwood calls his "sacred side." He is now working on a book about his "profane side"-his years as a Hollywood scriptwriter. Obviously this cameraman...
Didion's novels (Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer) are less interesting than her collections of magazine pieces; paradoxically, the novels do not exert the dramatic force of her journalistic essays. Didion is best when the literary transaction is personal and direct, when she is a live character reporting her own wanderings through the splendidly strange California of the late '60s and the '70s, a California that elaborately belongs to her because it is in part her own invention, like the persona that describes...
...read Dr. Kenneth Cooper's books on aerobics would assume that everything about the subjects of running and conditioning has already been written at marathon length. One would be wrong. For those who have not been rendered glassy-eyed by The Complete Book of Running, fuzzy-brained by Running and Being or stultified by indistinguishable issues of Runner's World, there is a whole new crop of books on running and walking. All amply demonstrate that whatever exercise does for the heart and lungs, it does little for literary skills...
...Guide to the U.S.A. (Summit; $12.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper) offers information on some 200 distance races, from four miles on up, with evaluations of the courses, the facilities available and the prizes awarded finishers. Target 26 (Collier; $4.95) provides some practical advice for anyone interested in marathons. The book is written in the same style as FM 22-5, the Army field manual that explains, among other things, how to turn left while marching. In addition, Target 26 trudges far too long through the minutiae of long-distance running. The authors remind readers unnecessarily that runners' "arms should move...