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...weeks of his life are run-on reminders of his inferiority. No luck. No chance. And of course-as a connoisseur of the hairsbreadth art of stand-up comedy will tell you-no respect. These components of Rodney Dangerfield's fractured comic mask form one of the unlikeliest success stories around. Dangerfield was a has-been even before he was anyone at all. "I dropped out of show business once," he often confesses in his act. "But nobody noticed...
...endless trunkloads of dollars it exchanges for limitless barrels of oil? After all, the Kingdom feels the pinch of inflation too: every time it raises the price of crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur of paintings, wine, well-bound books and unfettered women. Petrodollars, he reasons coldly, can rig almost anything, including the stock market. His plan is simple. Surreptitiously insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones...
Vendler's unique familiarity with modern poets and her excitement over their work combine to make Part Of Nature, Part Of Us an accessible collection of reviews--for both the neophyte and the connoisseur. However, the salient aspect of her work lies in its expression. Vendler has not only developed an almost singular rapport with many of these poets, attending to diverse structure and form, but she has learned how to cull her provocative thoughts from what Keats would call a "teeming brain...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...
...most remarkable connoisseur of Dutch painting and North European print and drawings ever to work in the field," Sydney J. Freedberg, Porter Professor of Fine Arts, said yesterday...