Word: dicks
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...Harlot's Ghost, published in 1991, Mailer embarked upon a sort of Moby Dick of the Central Intelligence Agency, with a volume that ran to more than 1,300 pages. A second installment is in progress. Meantime, the industrious Mailer offers Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House; 828 pages; $30), a kind of nonfiction psychobiography in which he turns his novelist's imagination to the '60s origin myth, John Kennedy's assassination. Oswald's Tale can be judged as investigative journalism or as literature. On either count a fair judgment would be favorable, though mixed. Sunshine and clouds...
LAST OCTOBER, WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton's inner circle was peddling him a comparatively rosy take on the midterm elections, one unlikely outsider was sending an alarm. Dick Morris, a Democratic turned Republican consultant who had worked for Clinton in Arkansas, told the President the Democrats would lose 50 seats in the House and control of the Senate as well. The prediction was so prescient that Clinton, though hardly lacking for advisers, has continued to partake of Morris' counsel, usually over the phone but sometimes during private sessions in the White House residence. He even directed the Democratic National Committee...
...Dick Haley, the player personnel director for the New York Jets, says, "We'd love to pick the next Montana, but then in 1979 when I was with the Steelers, I didn't pull the trigger on the first one. This kid grows up 20 miles down the road from us, and we still missed him." Joe Montana was missed then, and he'll be missed from...
Which is not to say that there is no pleasure to be had from these references; any audience likes to be stroked. There is no question that Marler is witty, and fellow English majors will no doubt enjoy jokes like "Discuss any references to aquatic mammals in Moby Dick." But the pleasure we get from these kinds of jokes is like the pleasure at hearing Marler name three well-known English professors as his examiners; much of the monologue would be of little or no interest to anyone outside Harvard, if not outside Harvard's English department...
...statistic makes it all the more important that in cases like the Hungerford trial in New Hampshire, the legal system gathers enough hard evidence to decide which are the real memories-and who are the real victims. --Reported by D. Blake Hallanan/San Francisco, Alice Park/New York, Rod Paul/Manchester and Dick Thompson/Washington