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...Scott Fitzgerald said it is a sign of genius to be able to entertain in the mind two mutually contradictory ideas without going insane. America does not think of itself as a genius anymore. A number of Americans went crazy when they heard Quayle's line about Murphy Brown...
...unwrinkled as their rosy cheeks; and in his first novels, Jay McInerney, the very young author, wrote chapters that seemed a little too cute and a little too easy. Bright Lights, Big City tried hard for the "God, how that boy can write" award once owned by Scott Fitzgerald, but McInerney's next two books, Ransom and Story of My Life, had little to offer except boyishness and a good ear for dialogue. A few scenes of cocaine snorting, the names of a couple of trendy clubs, a little easy listening -- that's all it took...
...Cole Porter Songbook, Ella Fitzgerald...
...wildly exultant moment, like the conclusion of The Natural -- music soaring, fireworks exploding, the crowd in hysterics. But no, it's just an away game on a flatly lighted September afternoon at the end of a nowhere season. The people who made The Babe seem to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark about there being no second acts in American life. They have the honesty to let their movie peter out just as Ruth's career did -- in anger, hurt and stupefaction...
...been deactivated by the DIA after being arrested by the FBI for using his DIA cover name, Thomas Leavy, on a passport application. Coleman claims that the DIA instructed him to do this. "But such trumped-up charges are frequently used to keep spooks quiet," says A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a Pentagon whistle-blower and a director of the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington, which has been looking into Coleman's case...