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...talk, for the most part, isn't about Hamptons and debentures. A petite blond writer in an electric red dress speculates for a guest about what might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...
...commit murder, is president of Lifers' Group Inc., headquartered behind four security doors in the gloomy Victorian fortress in Rahway, N.J. Its 54 members are serving sentences of at least 25 years for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. While fellow inmates pump iron, watch TV or gossip in their cells, these jailhouse Rockefellers volunteer their time to help the world outside. "I figured out early on that there were only two things I could work out here," says George, 45. "My health and my mind, and I had to nourish both of them...
Along with all those effulgent rhythms, it's the finesse of the language that lofts songs like this out of the arena of gossip and retribution into something far more formidable. "In its literary context, his writing is very important," says the poet Derek Walcott, to whom Simon dedicates a Saints song called The Coast. "Most poetry is sedate, quiet, self-concerned. His imagination is much bolder and more refreshing. He reminds me of Hart Crane...
...parents. In looks the merger retains more of M, but, as the first issue's cover signals, the sensibility is pure Manhattan, inc. It proclaims POWER BROKERS in letters 1 1/2 in. high and names 11 of them (10 men and Madonna). Inside is an almost nonstop stream of gossip, scuttlebutt and awestruck praise about the rich and famous, including 65 miniprofiles of such figures as financier Michael-David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings...
...powerful Times has felt the chill. Its ad linage during the first half of the year was off 13% compared with the same period in 1989. But while nobody doubts that the Times will continue, optimism about the tabloids is hard to find. The Post, a mix of catty gossip columns, conservative editorials and chest-thumping sports reporting, hasn't earned a penny in nearly two decades. Press lord Rupert Murdoch lost $150 million during the 12 years he owned the paper. He was threatening to close it down in 1988, when Kalikow, wealthy and eager to join the glamorous...