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...flap is less about the novel--a boisterous tale that Evelyn Waugh might have written were he resurrected as a Monty Python--than about Amis, 45, a best-selling writer undergoing some serious midlife changes. First, he left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...
...controversy surrounding Martin Amis' new book (Harmony; 374 pages; $24) has far overshadowed the novel, a meditation on envy that TIME book reviewer R. Z. Sheppard says "Evelyn Waugh might have written were he resurrected as a Monty Python." The flap is about Amis himself, a middle age writer who in earlier novels mocked ambition and avarice and who recently displayed ambition and avarice of his own. Amis got an advance of nearly $800,000 for "The Information," and encountered some serious jealousy in British publishing circles. As for the book itself, Sheppard says Amis has reached his limits...
...Wings Flap Jets Sheppard, Coffey lead red-hot Motown to 6-1 triumph. Page...
...Enquirer has had an accurate record on the O.J. case and that he left it to his readers to assess the veracity of the Enquirer's anonymous sources. But other journalists were outraged, though many newspapers and broadcasters repeated the disputed remark in the process of reporting the flap. "I can tell you I am far more offended by the New York Times' reliance on Enquirer reporting than I am by the Enquirer," says Jim Newton, who is covering the O.J. trial for the Los Angeles Times. Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard...
Last month, the B-S-A caused a flap...