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Good writers are often compared to great ones, and the Irish fiction writer John McGahern surely falls into one of these two categories. He has been compared to Joyce and Proust, to Carver and Faulkner, and he has been called Ireland's finest living fiction writer. It is, perhaps, the human impulse to categorize, to judge, to say that this art is great and that is not. Certainly Mr. McGahern's voice is an extraordinary one, one that immediately announces itself as distinctive and recognizable, and his fiction creates a quietly graceful universe that we can watch and believe...
DIED. LEWIS GRIZZARD, 47, humorist; from complications following heart surgery; in Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...
With the emotional intensity of William Faulkner, the eeriness of Edgar Allen Poe and some of the old-style manners of Margaret Mitchell, the film version of Tennessee Williams' smashing play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," won four Academy Awards in 1951. Today those non-descript Oscar figurines should be polished to their original sheen because perfection, impossibly enough, has been improved. Four minutes of charged dialogue, violent actions and a different ending have returned this film to the state Williams and director Elia Kazan originally intended...
...result of a ruling from Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend day classes at the Citadel, the all- male military college in South Carolina. Rehnquist's ruling allows Faulkner to study without cadet ranking while her sex-discrimination lawsuit against the school is pending...
...SHANNON FAULKNER...