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...there were differences, and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and big oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? George Bush's Social Security...
...evidence of Flint (Putnam; 338 pages; $24.95), Eddy's first novel, everyone had better hope the answer is no. This slickly paced thriller postulates a conspiracy, called the Enterprise, between rogue elements in British and U.S. intelligence. These powerful, shadowy mavericks shake down high-rolling international crooks for big protection money and then use their law-enforcement connections to make sure the bad guys get away with their misdeeds. Which is how Grace Flint, on an undercover assignment from New Scotland Yard, gets her lovely face stomped in and many bones in her equally winning body broken during a blown...
...since Modesty Blaise has spy literature seen a heroine as determined and spunky as Flint. Once she has recovered from her near death ordeal, she sets out to track down the villain who maimed her and stumbles ever deeper into the coils of the Enterprise. Eddy gives her a glamorous itinerary, including stops in the Caribbean, Paris, Amsterdam and Cyprus, and plenty of near escapes. Her adventures may be more diverting than credible, but Flint, who emerges from it all as a genuinely sympathetic and interesting character, looks as though she may have some pretty good commercial legs...
...steady succession of shootings has kept the cause in the news. A week after Kayla Rolland was shot by another first-grader in Flint, Mich., Rosie O'Donnell publicized the Million Mom March on her show. After seven kids were shot outside Washington's National Zoo, the Moms had to add more phone lines...
...almost perfect specimen of the genus 'peach,'" says dashing reprobate Rowley Flint (Sean Penn) to the truly peachy Mary Pantin (Kristin Scott Thomas) in this stilted version of a Somerset Maugham trifle about the moneyed class inconvenienced by lust and Fascism in 1938 Florence. It's the sort of stiff-upper-Brit badinage that one may think one is nostalgic for, until one hears it played straight in a film with no glamour (the cinematography makes everyone look blotchy), urgency or sense. Really, my pet, it's all just too terribly terribly...terrible...