Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Look at the Harlequins! looks most devotedly at the wives and the books, being at once a catalogue of Vadim's loves and "catalogue raisonne of the roots and origins and amusing birth canals of many images in my Russian and especially English fiction." We don't get a satisfying view, though. Wives and books--all, apparently, harlequins-- remain "outlines directed by reason" (to use the words of a younger Nabokov) seen as though through "the faceted eye of an insect." Vadim's wives are never more than shallow foils for his self-indulgence. One can't help suspecting that...
...riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California and is a partner in a new publishing company that supports young talent...
...obviously found the multicultural gumbo of California ideal for developing a fiction in which facts, academic speculations and just plain jive freely cohabit. The overall effect in Louisiana Red is thoroughly disarming. His approach to the novel is not unlike a Dixieland band's approach to music: a native American diversity that adds up to a unified style-authentic and endlessly fresh. -R.Z. Sheppard
...FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, /e Carre (1 last week) 2-Centennial, Michener (2) 3-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (3) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (4) 5-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 6-Watership Down, Adams (6) 7-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (5) 8-The Pirate, Robbins 9-The War Between the Tates, Lur.e (9) ] 0-Cashelmara, Howatch (8) NONFICTION 1-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (4) 5-Alive...
...else Nixon might become "a roving ambassador or top-level adviser" (as daughter Julie suggested last week). Such a post would let him perpetuate the fiction that while he may have been a domestic disaster as president, his foreign policy deserves our praise and gratitude. The White House has acknowledged that Ford has regularly consulted Nixon on foreign policy matters since the transition. It is conceiveable that Nixon will get an adviser's title to add to his current adviser role...