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...handful of writers fall in together at a downtown-Manhattan nightclub, do they make a literary noise if there is no journalist around to hear them...
...well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene, where Janowitz, like her friend the late Andy Warhol, understands that people will look at anything rather than nothing: artlike artifacts if there is no art, and booklike objects if there is no literature...
...quake struck at 7:42 a.m., shattering windows, snapping power lines, breaking gas mains and igniting fires. Worst hit was Whittier (pop. 72,000), twelve miles from downtown Los Angeles and the community closest to the epicenter. Eight blocks in Whittier's business district were closed after bricks cascaded on cars, and at least eight buildings were too damaged to be saved...
Chicago was chockablock with business seminars that week. Next door at the Marriott, muscular types in gold chains and shorts were studying health-club management. Downtown, engineers laid out a grand for four days of "Pneumatic Conveying for Bulk Solids." A company called the 1st Seminar Service lists 100,000 such seminars annually around the country. By its estimate, corporations send 8 million people a year for outside training, and think it is worth paying about $4 billion. The rustling sound of flip charts in action runs like a breeze through the cornfields from coast to coast...
...before the unsuccessful Diplomatic Club meeting, a third Kim had launched his campaign against Roh. To a poster-waving crowd of 3,000 supporters at a hotel in downtown Seoul, former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, 61, indicated that he too would seek the presidency, as the nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime...