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John Ehrlichman, 45, looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at their suburban Virginia home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could...
...outer space conclusively on the sound track of the film 2001. As an experiment, Volumina recalls the way Cage and Henry Cowell, in the 1930s, used to beat the prepared piano with their fists and elbows for new sonority. Like Cage and Cowell, the "Zacher school" seems as fond of grotesquerie as grace. And even grotesquerie has its place. It was Berlioz, after all, who ordered the violinists to rap on their strings with the wood of their bows in the Symphonie Fantastique, a very avant-garde thing...
...after the heroine of one of his novels. As Michael Arlen, he became a celebrity from Mayfair to Detroit in the days before the word and the condition were tired and devalued. Now his son, a TV critic and essayist, has written a wry and moving but far from fond memoir of his parents. He avoids the more impersonal roles of biographer or critic, as well as the casual stance of a raconteur with weighty names to drop. Instead, Exiles is a rare and minute accounting of growing up: the connections made and missed between parent and child...
...left Harvard by request, without a degree, and have long since forgotten the poem. However, the anticlimatic approach of the Fiftieth Reunion weirdly disturbs the deep psychic ooze and bottom silt, and disinters many, many memories (not all of them fond...
Profits v. Predictions. Some bankers, particularly in Germany, may have been happy to sell their I.O.S. shares and help the slide along. They were never particularly fond of the aggressive American whose salesmen persuaded so many people to take their money out of banks and buy mutual funds. The moment that I.O.S. shares began to fall, rumor mills splattered speculative theories all over Western Europe. The British press printed gossip that I.O.S., short of cash, was unloading large blocks of its securities portfolio. Mass-circulation German dailies aired tales (equally untrue) that I.O.S. President Edward Cowett and Sales Chief Allen...