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...same applies to his new novel, The Rules of Attraction, in which the village of the damned goes East. The setting is a New Hampshire college that resembles Bennington, the 23-year-old author's expensive alma mater. Ellis is proof that a best-selling writer can be downbeat as long as he is upscale. Had his subject been the degrading activities of East Los Angeles Chicanos or Newark blacks, he would have been branded an unfeeling racist and would have forfeited the privilege of being seen by millions on the Today show...
Both Bloom and Houn have won critical acclaim in their fields. Bloom recently won the "Downbeat" magazine critics' poll for the saxophone and has been compared to soprano sax masters John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter...
...Texas oil patch may still be in a horrible slump, but the mood in Houston last weekend was anything but downbeat. As fireworks exploded overhead, city officials opened the $175 million George R. Brown Convention Center, an ultramodern red, white and blue facility with enough floor space to cover 20 football fields. The hall, the eighth largest U.S. convention center, can accommodate up to 35,000 conventioneers. It is expected to help revitalize Houston's economy by pumping $300 million into local businesses every year and creating up to 10,000 jobs in the area. Already, 18 conventions, including...
...even before Air Force One reached Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes and Chief of Staff Donald Regan launched a campaign to reverse the downbeat impressions. They urged National Security Adviser John Poindexter to wander back into the press compartment of the plane. "Do you really want me to do it?" asked Poindexter, who had assiduously avoided the press during his first ten months in office. Assured that it was unavoidable, he conducted an 80-min. airborne briefing. While it was in progress, Regan and eight aides were sketching the next steps in what flowered into a publicity blitz unprecedented...
...some guarantee of progress on arms control. As the two sides emerged from private talks last week aimed at laying the groundwork for a summit, they appeared to remain far apart. Though the U.S. side rated the talks "constructive and businesslike," Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Adamishin was more downbeat. Said he: "I don't think we have achieved a lot of progress." The news from the Administration last week at least kept alive the hope that the two sides would keep trying...