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ANGEL OF LIGHT by Joyce Carol Gates Dutton; 434 pages...
There has always been something off-putting about the fiction of Joyce Carol Gates, even when, as in her short stories, it is at its most controlled and least melodramatic. What sets the teeth on edge is not the appalling prolificacy that has driven her to turn out 13 novels, eleven collections of stories, three books of criticism and five volumes of poetry in less than two decades while maintaining a full university schedule. It is not the author's bloodthirstiness- her plots are more sanguinary even than real life in the 20th century- or the unvarying over burden...
...DIED. Carol Fox, 55, feisty, determined co-founder of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, who, as its general manager for 25 years, helped build it into one of the country's leading opera companies; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A former voice student, Fox gave Maria Callas her U.S. debut and brought so many top-ranked Italian singers to the Lyric that the company was dubbed "La Scala West...
...Carol Bastek Culver City, Calif...
...stay with Bond for news in the battle of the sexes, though he tends to lag a bit farther behind the times on this score. His partner in Eyes is (natch) a great beauty, but also (surprise) an archaeologist. Though Melinda (Carol Bouquet) has the annoying habit of never moving her lips when she speaks, she does contribute handsomely to the doings in of the evilsowers. And I even detected--though this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though...