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THERE'S A CERTAIN sense of security that comes when the guy who taught you Fiction Expos publishes his first collection of short stories and they turn out to be offbeat, readable, even provocative. All those thesis statements adequately supported, specific active verbs and logical transitions produce a warming glow, a feeling that, after all, God or John Harvard or at least Richard Marius must be in his heaven...
...commitments were total. If she saw something she wanted, she went after it until it was hers for keeps." She succeeded, for a decade anyway, with Burton, before they both went on to other marriages. Meantime, Fisher, now 54, has never managed to rekindle his career to the glow of the '50s, and his autobiography (Harper & Row; $14.95) is poignant in its chronicle of his rise and fall. Burton, 56, plagued by a spine ailment, also seems at a standstill; the same could be said of Ferris' plodding biography (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $13.95). But Taylor...
...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of a real clean, healthy (American) sportsmanship. 57,000 fans haven't paid $4,80 and upwards each to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
...Reagan Administration has done little to dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...swimming pool ("lit from underneath at night as if it has swallowed the moon"); a moment in January ("It is cold, a day that might bring snow, a day that feels hollow"). These moments, and many others like them, shed radiance on Rabbit and his surroundings, the very glow of transcendence that this overweight car salesman still, stubbornly, thinks of as his birthright. He does not always see it, but Updike's readers are granted this vision and something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit...