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...begging for readers. The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), though lighter and frothier than Garp in most respects, offered a gallery of Dickensian eccentrics. But the author of such novels as Oliver Twist and Hard Times had more than entertainment on his mind; he used his fiction to expose and condemn abuses of the helpless. So, this time out, does Irving, and his crusade is sure to arouse controversy. The Cider House Rules is essentially about abortions and women's right to have them...
...PERFECT WORLD, we would condemn the Lowell House blockade as an unproductive move that diverted attention from South Africa and Harvard's investment policies. But in the context of the day's events, including both the provocation of the protestors and the substandard behavior by the police, the vote to blockade was not unreasonable...
Firebrand Republicans, vowing not to permit "business as usual," forced an all-night session, with some 60 Congressmen taking the floor to condemn the "theft" of the seat. The next day, when the House Administration Committee met to vote on the task force's ruling, all seven Republican members walked out; the remaining twelve Democrats decided unanimously to recommend that McCloskey be seated...
...there you have it. I've sunk as low as a critic can go. I've used (sob!) a superlative, a commendation that will probably condemn me to the seventh ring of Rex Reed's private hell. Too bad: Thompson's Berklee show, and the man, deserve nothing less
...While a visit to a German cemetery is itself a fine gesture to those Germans who suffered in the war, combined with Reagan's decision to avoid the concentration camps, the move becomes a highly insulating one. Concentration camp survivors, families of victims, and World War II veterans rightly condemn Reagan for what appears to be an attempt to bury memories of the irrefutable German past, of the six million Jews exterminated in the Holocaust...