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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spalding reconfirmed for TIME that the marriage, which he calls "a childish scamp," actually took place. He disputes a significant detail in another part of the book, the now much reduced portion dealing with Marilyn Monroe. Hersh writes that in 1960, on an occasion when Monroe was binging on alcohol and pills, Spalding went to Los Angeles at J.F.K.'s request "to make sure she was O.K.--that is, to make sure that Monroe did not speak out of turn." Spalding confirms the trip but emphatically denies that it was in any way intended to keep her quiet...
...with men and women tied to organized crime, his father's uninhibited use of family money to oil Jack's political career, his family's extraordinary efforts to hide the truth about themselves and manipulate the press into cooperating with them in that effort. Hersh adds some significant new detail to all these stories and many others. But he also offers a larger justification for returning to this sordid and oft-trod ground: "Kennedy's private life and personal obsessions--his character--affected the affairs of the nation and its foreign policy far more than has ever been known." Hersh...
Much of Felix's charm comes from its wonderfully self-conscious adherence to the classic conventions of mystery novels. A few key red herrings are made painfully obvious, as are several crucial clues. A large, distinctive signet ring is referred to in detail three or four times; only a very slow-witted reader could fail to mark its significance. In the car after interviewing Mirry about Gavin's death, one policeman turns to his partner and asks significantly, in time-honored detective novel tradition, "I wonder how she knew [the murder weapon] was a spanner," since the precise murder weapon...
Murakami moves effortlessly between surreal comedy and tragedy. In one of his most striking and sparsely rendered passages, aging veteran Tokutaro Mamiya comes to visits Okada and describes in graphic detail how he watched a friend get skinned alive by a Mongolian soldier. This encounter is followed by one of the funniest episodes of the book, in which Okada and his Lolita-esque neighbor travel to Tokyo to take inventory of its bald inhabitants...
...said, referring to her eight-month-old son. "We soon learned our baby Matthew was dying. We couldn't believe it. It was all inconceivable, and it was beyond us to comprehend that our Matty was dying because someone we trusted had hurt him." She recalled in stark detail the hopelessness of the situation: her son, who was on life support, was brain dead. On Feb. 9, she said, "we made the most painful decision in our lives. We had to let Matty go, be free of this life's pain." And then it was Louise Woodward's turn...