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DRINKS BEFORE DINNER by E.L. Doctorow...
...austerely elegant apartment setting at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater is an antiseptic anteroom of an urban purgatory. A cubistic formation of white, black, lucite and chrome, the room suggests that a fashionable decorator has just made a hasty exit. The people E.L. Doctorow assembles here, in his first play, are upper-middle-class professionals and old friends whose blood count has been lowered by civilization...
...Okay, You 're Okay. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men sold for $1 million in 1974; two years later their The Final Days fetched $1,550,000. Other notable $1 million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke the $2 million barrier...
...such a society, Doctorow suggests, it is not surprising that the images in Baraheni's essays on Iranian culture and images of brutality and atrocity, or that the images in his poetry are images of physical contact between bodies. In what is perhaps the most moving poem in this volume, two dead poets meet in the Julfa, a river that runs between the Soviet Union and Iran in which dissidents of both countries are rumored to have been drowned...
When Western writers speak of relationships, they do not generally mean the contact between anklebones; but perhaps, Baraheni and Doctorow suggest, that is the final relationship in a country where physical power is the only dynamic...