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...PROSE resembles Hemingway's with crisp dialogue alternating with action described in clean, factual, concise sentence. All of the stories are short and the best ones achieve a density of expression that almost approaches poetry. As in Hemingway, crucial information often has to be drawn from understated detail, especially in the stories openings: Pancake hits the ground running and his beginnings are as tightly packed with meaning as his epiphanic endings. A story as concise as "The Honored Dead" has to be re-read at least once: a tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture...
...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...
Vice President George Bush was in West Berlin, the Communist-encircled outpost where American leaders often enjoy ovations. In the mirrored ballroom of the Inter-Continental Hotel, his delivery was crisp, almost inspirational, as he told some 650 politicians, businessmen and military officers what they wanted to hear. "We are not preparing to fight a nuclear war. We are preparing to deter war. An attack on you is an attack on us." The U.S., said Bush, is ready "to consider and explore any and all reasonable Soviet offers at the negotiating table in Geneva...
...filthy rich wind up; carpenters, grips, security men, sound technicians and other behind-the-scenes retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen...
...Today's swift rise has surprised, and perhaps unnerved, some dominant regional newspapers, which have blatantly adopted some of the newcomer's selling points. The Austin American-Statesman is now splashed with color, rivaling USA Today's crisp photographs and streamlined graphics. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution imitated USA Today's national weather map, the Miami Herald its state-by-state compendium of news notes. The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune boosted sports coverage. Says Tribune Editor James Squires: "I see sports as USA Today's main draw...