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...plunges into a river. By week's end a newspaper headline explains everything: DOLLAR IN FREE FALL, cries the paper, NATION IS BANKRUPT. Figgie isn't talking about mere possibilities here. In his view, shared by retiring Republican Senator Warren Rudman in a slightly less hysterical foreword to the book, the plight of Tom and Betsy will be shared by virtually every American if the country does not change its profligate ways...
Nevertheless, the crux of the matter is summed up in a foreword by three directors of the show, Henning Bock of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Henk van Os of the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery's Neil MacGregor: "If Dou, Drost and Hoogstraten are the true creators of paintings that have for years delighted and inspired us ((as Rembrandts)), it is clearly time we took another look at them as well. Rembrandt remains a giant . . . But he is a giant surrounded no longer by pygmies, but by artists of real stature, whom we ought to know better." What seems...
What is significantly new about New Joy is a foreword: "The Implications of AIDS" (which "totally alters the sexual landscape") and a revised, thoroughgoing chapter on health, which the reader ought to study and absorb before moving on to the rest of the text. In blunt fashion, Comfort describes the ways in which people can become infected with AIDS and discusses methods of avoidance (none of which are without their dangers). Comfort's keynote: / "If your newly found love won't use a condom, you are in bed with a witless, irresponsible and uncaring person...
...first time, thanks to Supreme Court decisions liberalizing the definition of obscenity, performers were able to use whatever words they chose. Bruce, the gifted, tortured pioneer of this mode, aptly titled his autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. In the book's foreword, critic Kenneth Tynan praised Bruce as "an impromptu prose poet who trusted his audience so completely that he could talk in public no less outspokenly than he would talk in private." But Bruce suffered for that trust. His scabrous truth telling got him arrested in the U.S. and evicted from Britain. He died...
...Robert Benchley. Traveling around Europe, cooking while in and out of love, she developed an eclectic repertoire: from Russian fish soup to French vegetable soup with white wine, from Southern "transparent pie" -- made with quince jelly -- to an opaque Dutch apple pudding. The icing on the cake is a foreword by the incomparable food writer M.F.K. Fisher, the author's godmother...