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...answer: Of course. It then proceeds to describe the rivalry between the altruistic Foundation and two less noble competitors for the heart and mind of the cosmos. As the breathless plot caroms on, Asimov winks at his audience. Interplanetary rocketeers not only take advantage of hyperspace (folds in the fabric of the universe) to bridge the light-years between one solar system and another; they also use English and credit cards. Rare is the author who can resume a story after a pause of three decades, but Asimov has never been predictable in anything but fecundity. This is his 260th...
...alternative lives. Their author proved over the years that the ramshackle, theoretically condemned house of story telling still has some unexplored chambers and fresh air. "Fiction," he once said, "is a tissue of literal lies that refreshes and informs our sense of actuality. Reality is-chemically, atomically, biologically-a fabric of microscopic accuracies...
...weather yet, the National Football League strike still seems as much a novelty as a catastrophe. Without baseball, summer might as well be canceled; lazy days depend on it. But doesn't pro football occupy only a narrow space, somewhere between church services and Sunday supper, in the fabric of American life? Then why has the country been on red alert since last Tuesday? If the owners can afford to lose $38 million a week, and the players $7 million, quarreling over control of the game, who cares, except a few bookies, broadcasters and bankers, unless, maybe...
...sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure; the drawing punches large puritan holes...
...Baltimore stockbroker who invested $4,000 in this, his first European vacation, figured that the $440 (plus dinner and drinks) for his Venice-Paris ticket was only $ 180 more expensive than the economy airfare for the journey. Caroline Rohm, a fashion designer from New York who buys fabric in Italy twice a year, predicted that she and Friend Henry Kravis. a Manhattan stockbroker, will "sell 200 seats" with their glowing accounts of the journey...