Word: detailism
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...international spy novel is defunct. So goes the current wisdom, and it is as false as the leads in Soviet Sources (Atlantic Monthly Press; 264 pages; $19.95). Novelist Robert Cullen, a former Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, jolts the genre into new life with a plausible plot and authentic detail. Stationed in the U.S.S.R., journalist Colin Burke discovers that the nation's leading reformer has suffered a stroke. Hard-liners plan a takeover, and part of the plan is framing the American on trumped-up charges before he can spill his scoop. Meantime, a Soviet actress is also trying...
...Target the tax to a purpose the voters understand. California's gas tax was presented as a "user fee" that would translate into relief for overcrowded highways. A $5 million campaign for Proposition 111 and its companion Proposition 108 spelled out the spending goals to the last detail. "Our strategy was to explain that this 5 cents a gallon is $5 a month to the average family of four," says assemblyman Richard Katz. "If you live in the San Fernando Valley, that gets you two lanes on the Simi Valley Freeway and an additional lane in each direction...
Hollywood could not have cast a more suitable director. Serious and sensitive, with a trial lawyer's appetite for the telling detail, Pakula had brought two "unfilmable" books, All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, to life onscreen. For his new challenge, he and production designer George Jenkins scouted courthouses around the country. They finally chose Detroit for exterior shots, Newark for some early court scenes and, for the climactic trial, an elaborate set modeled on a Cleveland building and meticulously reproduced at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens...
...heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent, who must reconcile his responsibilities to his profession with those to his family. As the novel makes clear, Sandy cannot do both...
...support of 15% of the population. After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...