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...National Book Award nomination and a devoted following. Now, in her second novel, The Aguero Sisters, (Knopf; 300 pages; $24), she extends her domain to the whole history of the island across this century, and the "aura vultures" and "Batista hawks" and "siguapa stygian owls" that flit through its heavens, above all the political upheavals and reversals. Indeed, not the least of her achievements is to vault over all the strident polemic that stains so much writing on the island and to immerse us instead in the much deeper spirits that dwell in its imagination...
...characters flit on- and offstage like cameos. Here is a good-natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...
...where would you go? Harvard Square, of course! With branches of at least five major banks right here, robbers have a virtual smorgasbord. Armored cars cruise through Massachusetts Avenue at all hours, ripe for the picking. Crowds swarm in and out of buildings, automatic teller machines abound, payroll packets flit to and fro--it's a robber's paradise...
...chaotic energy of much of Taylor's music is periodically interrupted by periods of intense calm, but even the calmer moments require concentration to grasp the tantalizing hints of romantic melodies that flit from underneath his fingertips...
...would become Satan had many names in heaven. Most of Western tradition identifies him as Lucifer, the Morning Star, the most brilliant of all the denizens of the empyrean. He is Sammael, according to the rabbinical literature of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures. And it was pride that...