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...part Prospero, part yogi, he alone would make this a novel to conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader's attention from the first page: "I had walked from Gaga's in Marstons Mills to Mashpee, where Dada was living with Vera, his Wampanoag woman, and when I got there he was black-out drunk and she was gone. I looked at Dada lying on the floor and made sure he was not dead." The resemblance to Huck Finn does...
...correspondent stopped a Key Tour that was just finishing up the "Three Lies of the John Harvard Statue" spiel. Knowing that Crimson Key folks went gaga for good humor, FM decided to crack a joke...
...Court. What Washington journalists really want to know is which of them will get Paul Duke's job as moderator of PBS's venerable news-analysis show, Washington Week in Review. Since June, when Duke, 66, announced his decision to retire, much of the national press corps has been gaga over the prospect of succeeding him. At last count more than 50 applications had been submitted, including many from print journalists who, in other circumstances, enjoy belittling TV. But never mind consistency -- the Washington Week job is an opportunity not to be missed: the pay is good (low six figures...
...next year. One major investment house, Morgan Stanley, is allowing employees to take roughly half the value of their bonuses now and the rest in February. In Hollywood, Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios are prepaying actors, directors and producers their share of film profits by Dec. 31. After going gaga for Clinton in the fall campaign, the movie capital is leading the way in grabbing quick gains today while knowing that it may have to share the burden tomorrow...
...basked in this moving display of friendship, this tradition which I'd just entered. Here was the idyllic setting I had refused to allow myself to imagine. Never mind that Harvard's past was not part of my own cultural heritage. For someone who had gone gaga over things colonial--over quill pens, tricornered hats, and Georgian architecture--living in Holworthy, in the Yard, was perfect...