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If one of pop lit's earnest plonkers had written this clumsy, lively, thoroughly entertaining family saga of war and romance, no reader would have puzzled over deep currents that seem unaccountably shallow. Anthony Burgess, however, is one of literature's certified mandarins, known as an explicator of Ulysses (Re...
Other entertaining and illuminating chapters include "Examples and ! Principles," in which Paulos shows why the giant Gargantua would be a physical impossibility; "Pseudo-science," a saline, agnostic examination of parapsychology and astrology; and "Statistics, Trade-Offs and Society," in which some astonishing questions arise. Among them: What percentage of college...
Yet a huge disconnect occurred. Reagan, understanding better than Beltway insiders what really interests voters, usually concentrated on a handful of fundamentals. Having established his credibility early, he was able to get by on what amounted to a TV-era version of bread and circuses. The bread was the economic...
On the stump, the messenger is as entertaining as his message is fervid. Fuller, 53, is an Ichabod Crane look-alike who is incessantly joking, cajoling, commoving, pressing, pleading for Habitat. He leans and swaggers, hunches his shoulders, pokes his head and forms grandfather spiders with his lean hands, which...
WISEGUY (CBS) Ken Wahl is Vinnie Terranova, an undercover cop sniffing out Mob bad guys, in TV's roughest, toughest, most flamboyantly entertaining crime series.