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PERHAPS because of the greater screen-writing success of the other writers and the lesser body of critical writings preceding him here, Dardis writes more to the point after closing the Fitzgerald section of his book. His description of Stanley Rose, the "flamboyant, self-styled con man," who ran a book shop frequented by many of the writers and who himself finally went straight, becoming a literary agent, is almost satisfying. And for a further depiction of the Hollywood scene, Dardis is wise enough to rely on Faulkner's observations rather than his own patchy reporting...
Ironically, the general is the slave of his own power, unable to control its con-sequences or the mechanisms that set it in motion. Even his casual remarks are interpreted by his police as orders to kill. And, he is at the mercy of time, nature and death like anyone else. In the end, death comes and calls him by a name not his own, but he responds. Faced with the mortality he tried to deny, he finally recognizes another uncontrollable force--love...
...theatrical manner, what the group sees as misplaced priorities in many fields of scientific research. This summer, for example, the Cambridge City Council voted a three month moratorium on recombinant DNA experiments within the city limits of Cambridge. The decision came after two public meetings involving pro and con testimony from prominent science-faculty members at Harvard...
...could be more natural than a former political reporter with New York magazine, a book to his name and money in the family, buying a little freedom of the press. Hence, Michael Kramer, the new editor and publisher of [MORE]. And hence, just as every three-bit show biz con artist feels the urge to imprint their feet into the drip-dry cement outside Grumman's Chinese Theater, for posterity, that is, and the virtue of newness, Kramer's facelifting and wholesale suburban renewal of [MORE]. From tabloid to magazine, from just covering the print press to umbrella-ing anything...
When a 23-year-old ex-con named John Rojas was recently brought into the emergency room of New York's Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center with three serious gunshot wounds, he seemed to be just another victim of street violence in crime-riddled Harlem. But by the time surgeons finished patching him up, they realized Rojas's case could well go into medical annals. One of the bullets had made an incredible 32-inch journey through his body; yet the man miraculously survived. The case was so extraordinary that its like has seldom been seen...