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...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author keeps a tight grip on his own creatures of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irrelevant aristocracy and the winning eccentrics who compose a swimming-pool society...
...Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill and dale by a Cadillac jammed with knife-wielding apists (strangely, they seem to be baddies), make passionate love to celebrate their escape. Then Hector, "in his last thought before he curled into the grip of deepest sleep, yearned for the clean true feel of a basketball." UNFINISHED FUNERAL by Nicco Tucci. 192 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...steel, and if he keeps pushing such controversial legislation, he may not be around for too long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson must take up the unfinished business of Fidel...
...Impotent & Dangerous." Celestino's decline, as he loses his firm grip on nothingness and stumbles into senescence and death, is told in a novel that for most of its length is wry and likable. But the author, the distinguished French Playwright Henry de Montherlant, has chosen to cast not only Celestino but the novel itself into absurdity. Clearly this was to have been a novel of ideas; in detail it is. Celestino is full of lively observations and prickly comments. And the author appears to have something climactic to say. In successive pages he pastes up his posters, hires...
...also serves to control the grip of an overzealous supporter, as well as being a particularly personal gesture from the candidate. Female voters in particular did not seem to mind being grasped by Bellotti's powerful arms...