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Vivid Portrait. The city and the decade provide a nostalgic paradox that has fascinated novelists, scholars and citizens from Christopher Isherwood and Hannah Arendt to the long lines currently waiting to see Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Otto Friedrich has combined history and cultural journalism to produce the most vivid portrait of the period yet written. Weaving back and forth in time and place between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Goebbels, between Berlin and Hollywood, between 1920 memoirs and 1971 interviews, the author, who is a former managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a TIME senior editor, has recreated...
GERONIMO REX by Barry Hannah. 337 pages. Viking...
...greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone the route from private inrage to public outrage. It is not easy to write a regional novel in a homogenizing world. Barry Hannah, 29, has managed it the first time out by combining...
...concern for the violated heart. Many of his women spend an amazing amount of stage time in negligee, a provocation and an invitation to the bed. The widow Maxine Faulk (the surname is scarcely subtle) comes onstage in The Night of the Iguana with her blouse enticingly unbuttoned. Yet Hannah Jelkes in the same play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying...
...Peter. John Meier, another former Hughes associate, who is now running for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate in New Mexico, has already appeared before the grand jury. Stanley Meyer has been called. Among the many questioned by federal agents are Mike Hamilburg and his wife Hannah, Los Angeles Times Book Critic Robert Kirsch and Las Vegas Newspaper Publisher Hank Greenspun. A subpoena also went out to Robert Edwin Holdorf, a sometime Las Vegas resident who has been thrice convicted for forgery...