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Despite his professional credentials, Marx is not much of a writer. He uses phrases like "the burning glare of sensational publicity" and "most ravishing of all those glittering luminaries." But in unraveling the famous Bern mystery, he is something more interesting: a witness. Tipped off by a friend, Marx got to Bern's house on the morning his body was found, hours before anyone called the police. He discovered MGM production chief Irving Thalberg already there, interrogating the servants and learned that Mayer had even earlier come and gone. He heard that some woman had visited Bern the night before...
...glare focuses on thrift honchos, the economy worsens and Washington dithers. -- The Silverado story: how Neil Bush threw in with hustlers who cost taxpayers $1 billion. -- With voters sicker than usual of politics-as-usual, it's a tricky year for incumbents. -- Former Klansman David Duke taps a rich vein of resentment. -- The tangled tale of the Menendez murders...
...jutting jaw, the breaking voice, the intense glare have long made Kirk Douglas a favorite of stand-up mimics. At age 73 he has finally decided to join their ranks. In his first novel, Dance with the Devil, Douglas offers impressions of Harold Robbins and Judith Krantz...
...rare occasions that Andy Kerr dares to show his face in coffee shops while passing through Northwestern timber towns, the local people just stare and glare. Many of them recognize him from homemade wanted posters hung in sawmills or have seen his name on banners with slogans like KISS MY AX, ANDY. Lumberjacks deride Kerr as Andy Cur or Andy Cull (a term for a worthless log). And after putting away a few beers, some loggers have even called him from tavern telephones with death threats...
Under the circumstances, Gorbachev's flashes of frustration as he stalked the Kremlin anterooms in the glare of TV lights were understandable. "In politics," he grumbled, "the public doesn't accept pluralism. Perestroika depends on public opinion, and it is conservative." But Gorbachev's candidate for the presidency of the Russian federation, Alexander Vlasov, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and prime minister of the federation, hardly seems the < stirring leader needed to carry out his boss's vision. When Vlasov delivered an hour-long report last week, it was so plodding that not even Gorbachev seemed to be listening...