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...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...
...entire country seemed to be in the grip of a patriotic fever. In the capital, blue-and-white national flags adorned everything from office buildings to shop windows to taxicab antennas. Cafés, shops and hotel lobbies buzzed with excited talk of the latest news. Television shows were repeatedly interrupted by grave-sounding announcers reading war bulletins before the backdrop of the national emblem. Crowds gathered outside newsstands to peruse the latest reports. On the Plaza de la República, women sat in the sun knitting wool socks, caps and scarves for the troops on the islands...
Harsh, haunted, as chilling as a fever dream, Still in Saigon is music made from the silence of the dead. Like John Fogerty in his great songs for Creedence Clearwater Revival (Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son, Who'll Stop the Rain), Daley writes with ruthless simplicity. Still in Saigon has no patience with protest. Its power comes from undeflected imagery and reflective compassion: "The ground at home/ Was covered with snow/ And I was covered with sweat/ My younger brother calls me a killer/ And my Daddy calls me a vet .../ Damned if I know...
...Mosaic, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. North and South, Jakes (2) 3. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (4) 4. Twice Shy, Francis (3) 5. Celebrity, Thompson (8) 6. Thy Brother's Wife, Greeley (6) 7. An Indecent Obsession, McCullough (5) 8. River of Death, Mac Lean (9) 9. Fever, Cook (7) 10. Southern Discomfort, Brown
...Fever, Cook...