Word: generous
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...Director Alan Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men) has bought it for the movies. What Donna Tartt has attempted -- and largely brought off -- is a challenging combination of a mystery (will they get caught or won't they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature and doesn't care who knows it. It all adds up to confidence verging on bravura...
Fostering in-house book writers is a long TIME tradition. Assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson is the author of Kissinger: A Biography, which will be published by Simon & Schuster next month. Isaacson says, "Henry Kissinger was very generous in the time and access he gave me. But it's not an authorized biography, and indeed it's quite critical in places." This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the spotted-owl environmental controversy in his | forthcoming book Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William A. Henry...
Colombians are still arguing about which is more outrageous: drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's escape three weeks ago during an attempt by the military to regain control of his so-called prison, or the prison itself. Among the generous amenities: a water bed, videocassette player, 60-inch television set, stereo, fireplace, personal gymnasium and frequent visits from family and friends -- and even perhaps a few prostitutes...
...with just his (considerable) powers of speech -- which he couldn't exercise until he reluctantly agreed to endorse the Clinton ticket. Mario Cuomo, who for months had sniped at Clinton from the sidelines, preached some old-time Democratic religion while blessing a ticket with postliberal views on welfare (too generous) and government spending (ditto). Even Jerry Brown couldn't throw a wrench into the works, though he and his cantankerous supporters tried. When he finally spoke on Wednesday night, his sulfurous podium performance included no endorsement of his party's ticket. Maybe it was resentful party regulars who arranged...
...Keck Foundation gave $70 million to Caltech, which now has a telescope called Keck I and, for $72 million more, will soon have Keck II. Publishing magnate Walter Annenberg has the University of Pennsylvania School for Communication named after him ($75 million), though what he got for his generous $50 million gift to the United Negro College Fund was a very nice quilt...