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...where an interview subject normally wants his privacy," says White. These included a shopping trip, a visit to the podiatrist and a call on his ailing son Jonathan, 17, in a Chicago hospital. At the preacher's home in a pleasant black section of Chicago, White watched a brisk basketball game between Jackson and his aides. "His best shot is a kind of rising set shot, fired from not quite off his toes," reports White...
...what an option costs. Some can be bought for less than $1,000. In addition, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last month launched a contract based on a Standard & Poor's roundup of 100 stocks that can be invested in for about $3,000. It is already a brisk seller...
...Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Germany's pre-eminent stage and film director died last year at 36, a fat, wasted mess, bloated with drink and drugs like so many of his movies' protagonists. Yet his films, such as Ali and The Marriage of Maria Braun, were models of brisk precision (they had to be: he made 40 or so in only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director knew...
...Above the broad plate-glass window, a large painted sign read simply PERSIAN RUGS. But inside there were no customers looking at the dusty piles of carpets. Instead, behind a curtain in the rear of the shop, telex machines, shortwave radios and computerized communications gear hummed continuously. Business was brisk, and it had nothing to do with rugs. The shop was a front for the illegal sale of U.S.-made weapons and aircraft parts to the government of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...Stephen Birnbaum; Houghton Mifflin; $13.95. This is the pick of the single-volume books, a guide to the bests: ski areas, tennis clubs, museums, music festivals, language schools, even flea markets. Birnbaum provides detailed sightseeing itineraries as well as separate entries on 34 major cities. Written in a brisk, chummy style, Europe 1983 is like a long chat with a peripatetic friend whose tastes you share...