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...Because if you knew her, you'd know that's not true. She's a sharp, grownup person. She's probably more mature than I am. I really mean that...
...BOTTOM LINE: McInerney fulfills his early promise with a funny, grownup portrait of a Lost Generation...
...perhaps just in time to join the adults before the big door clicks shut in his face, McInerney, 37, appears with an entirely grownup novel about the end of the '80s. It's a funny, self-mocking, sometimes brilliant portrait of Manhattan's young literary and Wall Street crowd, our latest Lost Generation. If it's not quite Tender Is the Night, neither, cold-eyed readers will recall, was Tender Is the Night...
...Cosby Show -- the reason why it won't be enshrined among TV's best family shows -- was that while it was packed with kids, it never showed much empathy for them. Every childhood problem, adolescent crisis or family dispute was refracted through Dad's eyes, perceived from a grownup's sardonic -- and often sentimentalized -- perspective. In the last episode, Theo's graduation is just another trial for Dad to bear. When Denise calls long-distance to tell the family she is pregnant, the sequence is mainly about how Dad doesn't get a chance to talk to her because everybody...
...what a powerful grownup it has become. United Germany, with 80 million citizens and Europe's largest economy, is asserting itself as never before in postwar history. It is assuming a forceful leadership role in European foreign policy even as the Bundesbank rules Europe's economic roost. Germany has had a leading role in the task of guiding the former Soviet Union through its postcommunist crisis; it was Chancellor Helmut Kohl who, far more than George Bush, pushed for last week's $24 billion Group of Seven aid package for Boris Yeltsin's Russian government. And German firms are grabbing...