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Orwell was one of the English language's most precise prose craftsmen, and assessing such a literary icon would give any writer pause. Gray, who taught English literature for seven years at Princeton, is no exception. Says he: "I sometimes felt as though his ghost were looking over my shoulder, judging every word that came out of my typewriter...
...Arlington National Cemetery, as if in professional tribute to the first President who understood the medium and performed perfectly in it. In sanctifying his memory, videotape became Kennedy's Parson Weems. The reality of what the nation had lost was preserved with unprecedented, unthinkable vividness: his holographic ghost moving and talking inside every television set, that American dreamboat campaigning through the primaries among leaping and squealing adolescent girls, the snow-dazzled Inaugural ceremony, the wonderfully witty press conferences replayed endlessly, the children, the family, the one brief shining moment shown shining again...
...Decatur Staleys. By 1922 Halas had moved the team to Chicago, renamed it the Bears, and suggested that the fledgling 18-team league he played in be rechristened the National Football League. Three years later, Halas and the N.F.L. hit the big time when he signed the famed Galloping Ghost, Halfback Red Grange, who started drawing sellout crowds five days after his last college game. Tightfisted (at first he collected the tickets himself) and tough-minded (he ran up a 73-0 victory to take the 1940 league title from the Washington Redskins), "Papa Bear" Halas developed an ongoing phalanx...
Ambitious boy kicks burg is a familiar story, and central to the Zuckerman books. The Ghost Hunter (1979) introduced a young Nathan, like Roth a Newark-born writer who was hailed as the most promising voice in American letters. Zuckerman Unbound (1981) found the hero in his 30s, beleaguered by celebrity and controversy. Carnovsky, a Portnoy-like novel, had angered the community and his own family. His father's dying word to his son was "Bastard." Roth's father, a retired insurance executive, is a vigorous supporter of his son's work...
...spend much of their time in the writer's 1790 colonial farmhouse on 40 orderly acres in northwest Connecticut. There are frequent stays in London, where Bloom continues to act on stage and before the camera. In January she will appear in Roth's adaptation of The Ghost Writer on Public Broadcasting...