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...BOOK BECOMES far more than a parody, however. Though the characters are never believable, they become increasingly intense and compelling. You never sympathize with Lou Ford, or even completely understand what's going on inside his head, but you're fascinated by his warped mind and morbidly curious about his next move. You quickly lose your detached amusement...
...with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. Newsrooms have provided electric settings for popular entertainments: in the theater, The Front Page; Citizen Kane at the movies; Lou Grant on the tube. The public has even proved curious about the facts of the matter. The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's anecdotal book about the New York Times, was a national best seller...
Tuesday night the Nobel winner opened Currier's 1986-87 dinner table lecture series with a presentation called "The Golden Pineapple." Herschbach said he told students, "If you look at a pineapple you see there are a lot of little hexagons arranged in a curious...
...next American President may be even less easy to do business with than Reagan. They can foresee an American President who is more vigorously anti-Soviet and even more committed to strategic defense than is Reagan. As they survey the U.S. political landscape, Soviet-American-affairs specialists are noticeably curious about such cold-warrior candidates as Jack Kemp and Paul Laxalt...
...center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event by using a form associated with indirection and repose...