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While the get-well-soon notes continued to flood in, the President last week gave the latest medical bulletin on his wife's recovery. "She's giving me a few harsh words," he told a G.O.P. audience in Grand Rapids. "I'm being silenced more and more-and that's a sign she is getting better...
...plot of undifferentiated clutter, hedged about with manicured non sequiturs. Though billed as nonfiction, this collage of pieces reads suspiciously like his past story collections-fragmented, humming with vaguely malevolent absurdities. This book's innocent pleasures stem from seeing how far the author can jump. The Consumer Bulletin Annual, for instance, hardly seems a bouncy platform for whimsy. Yet Barthelme somersaults from it into the tale of a hapless soul whose purchases consistently turn out to be substandard. "Consider the case of the bedside clock. 'Check for loudness of tick,' the Annual said. I checked. It ticked...
...reported to Sapp that Hornsby had been duly killed and demanded the rest of his $5,000 payoff. To authenticate the deal, police swarmed around Hornsby's suburban home and asked a local TV station to announce that a murder had occurred. The station complied with a bogus bulletin about a killing in a "fashionable Maitland residence." Satisfied that they had enough evidence from the various recorded Sapp-Hernandez conversations, police closed in and arrested the would-be murderer...
...just such a dread prospect that this month caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the minute hand of its "doomsday clock" three minutes closer to midnight (TIME, Sept...
Ever since 1947 when it was founded by conscience-stricken scientists who had helped create the atomic bomb, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward...