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...leading spender in the race--which climaxes with municipal elections November 3--is incumbent David Wylie. Widely regarded as the incumbent with the most precarious grip on his seat, Wylie spent $13,131.72 through the mid-October period, and listed receipts for $15,606.11. However, he loaned $9936.11 of his own money to the campaign effort...
...world in that stricken electronic burst that has now, after much experience, become a sort of art form, a genre of the politics of terror and risk and awful surprise: television verite abruptly pouring bulletins into the global village, the images of anchormen nervously fighting for a grip on things. The mind behaved like the hand-held television cameras that reeled wildly from sky to earth and then zoomed in on that Guernica of tumbled chairs and shot bodies and blood smears...
...demonstrate the slippery grip on reality his lawyers will claim for him, Hinckley has written a letter to TIME Washington Correspondent Evan Thomas elaborating on his one-sided courtship of Actress Jodie Foster, 18 (see box). Hinckley had written TIME several weeks earlier offering to answer any 20 questions the magazine posed. Thomas submitted the questions-on such subjects as Hinckley's childhood, his travels before the shooting and his friends-but Hinckley chose to address only his feelings about Foster. Atop the letter, Hinckley scrawled the title, The Lovesick Assassin...
Rabbit still runs, not to escape Janice and responsibility but to try to shrink his 42-in. waist. Jogging stimulates him into philosophy: "Life tries to get a grip anywhere, on earth that is, not on the moon, that's another thing he doesn't like about the thought of climbing through the stars." Thought has become Rabbit's refuge and strength. He and Janice and two other couples take a Caribbean vacation...
...thus far of his writing. It may even include students, but he's not saying for sure. Engel brightens perceptibly when the subject of his writing comes up; he doesn't really talk much about the work, yet he seems comfortable in its atmosphere, relaxed in the familiar grip of his profession. Writing and teaching may not come easily to him, but he has made up his mind about his life and he has found quietude in the certainty of his decision. "I'm 60 years old," says Monroe Engel, "I write fiction because that is what...