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...fictions-range back to Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits, whose pious innocents forget a prayer and run on top of the ocean to find their condescending teacher. The most recent are powerful condensations of modern life by Heinrich Boll, who describes a professional laugher producing merriment on cue for everyone but himself, and Paula Fox, whose News from the World describes a woman and her contaminated seaside village withering for lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other master miniaturists show that brevity can be not merely the soul...
Ronald Reagan could not have picked a better audience (4,200 members of the National Catholic Educational Association), or a more fitting date (April 15, the deadline for filing tax returns). His speech was chock-full of applause lines, and he hit nearly every one on cue. "I believe that working Americans are overtaxed and underappreciated." Cheers and applause. "I have come to Chicago to propose another tax bill that will allow them to keep a little more of their own money. I have come to propose a tuition tax credit for parents . . ." At this point, his listeners rose...
Crimson pitcher Ellen Jakovic took her cue from the Bruin mound ace, and in the second game of the marathon weekend, hurled her first career shutout for a 10-0 win over Cornell...
...John Irving will be seen as a wrestling coach in the film version of his novel The World According to Garp, Herlihy will play the king of the hobos in a new play by California Playwright Henry Murray, and Novelist and Screenwriter John Sayles will take Plimpton's cue and assume the role of seducer in a film titled Lianna...
REGARDLESS OF WHERE Orlando Jose Tardencillas learned to handle his rifle, parading a committed revolutionary in front of the TV cameras under a death threat cannot possibly be classified under "Thoughtful Argumentation" in the State Department hand-book. Even if the young man had recited his lines on cue, would that have proved he was telling the truth or that the Salvadoran civil war can be attributed to Communist infiltration via Nicaragua...