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...Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...
...provoked, the diminutive (5 ft.) Whitmire can be as scrappy as a Lone Star rattler. When one of her opponents refused to debate her in the 1981 campaign, she challenged him to "come out and fight like a man." Whitmire says she is content running the nation's fourth largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump...
...beyond the bounds of a usual insider trading suit, which normally prohibits employees of a corporation from profiting on non-public information about the company's plans. In this case, however, the SEC alleges that Winans defrauded the publishers of the Journal by misappropriating confidential information about the content and timing of news stories. The Government suit also maintains that Winans had a duty to disclose to readers that he had a financial interest in the securities about which he wrote...
Pursuing his prototypes, the author has gone into the same cage, hanging around ethnic and inner-city bars, courtrooms and squad rooms. These days, however, he is content to stay at a 200-year-old writing table in the large and comfortable study of his Birmingham, Mich., home 15 miles and financial light-years from the Detroit streets he portrays. Even so, the man who made close to $1 million last year from film deals and literary rights has not let success alter his owlish image. Let others compose on word processors; Leonard still writes in longhand and revises...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...