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...Orleans voted indictments of seven officers. Last month in Dallas, where the trial had been moved on a federal judge's orders, two former Algiers residents, Robert Lee Davis, 20, and Johnny Brownlee, 23, told of being handcuffed, then beaten by New Orleans police with a hardback city directory; of being suffocated with a plastic bag; and of being taken out to a wooden bridge over a levee and having a shotgun put to their heads. One New Orleans detective, a black who had been given immunity from prosecution, corroborated some elements of the government's case. More...
Didion's timing is not bad either. Salvador, first published in the New York Review of Books, goes hardback and national just as full attention is turning again to the nation of only 8,260 sq. mi. The book is Didion's report on two weeks spent in El Salvador during 1982. Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back comes to mind. Didion listens to experts on la situatión, and one is reminded of Bellow's comment after a similar experience in the Middle East: "Such intelligent discussion hasn't always been wrong...
...1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs...
...visitor ambles to the ice cream pavilion in the town's square. Near by a sizable bookstore offers the works of Reinhold Niebuhr in paper and hardback, but no Playboys. A red-brick walkway shaded by great maples leads to the Hall of Philosophy, a determinedly Greek structure with large white columns. It would be impossible to utter a facetious word in this edifice, and Gene Outka, a professor of religious studies at Yale, is seriously posing conundrums, one of which concerns a military chieftain in some benighted land who has condemned ten political prisoners to death...
...more recognition, notoriety and money than two novels, last year's The Cardinal Sins (2.6 million copies in print) and this year's Thy Brother's Wife. The first is in its 21st week on the paperback bestseller list, the second in its twelfth on the hardback charts...