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...sunny Sunday morning in July, near the height of the Venetian tourist season, the public gardens are empty. Where is the audience for the new? The national pavilions, that whimsical collage of defunct official styles, are as deserted as the dream piazza in a De Chirico, populated only by young guardiani doing their nails in the humid silence. It reminds you of the old nursery rhyme...
...INNOCENT by Ian McEwan (Doubleday; $18.95). Set in Berlin in 1955, at the height of the cold war, McEwan's thriller deftly solves the conundrum of writing a spy novel in the era of glasnost...
...Sandinistas seemed disinclined to push their protest as far as full- scale revolt. Nevertheless, Chamorro acted wisely to bring a swift halt to the unrest. As the rapid acceleration of violence showed, militants of all political stripes are eager to use any pretext to bash former foes. At the height of last week's confusion, her staunchest conservative critic, Vice President Virgilio Godoy, called for the formation of "Brigades of National Salvation," apparently hoping to deputize the armed groups that clashed with strikers. Not surprisingly, Chamorro's prudence was denounced by Godoy and other conservatives within her 14-party alliance...
...will grow tenfold, to about $650 million. At the same time, Masato wants to make Mizuno goods the worldwide standard for quality just as his grandfather Rihachi made Mizuno baseballs the standard in Japan. It was Rihachi who decreed that when an official Japanese ball was dropped from a height of 16 1/2 ft., it had to bounce 4 1/2 ft. That just happened to be the eye level of the diminutive company founder. Today his grandson, who is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, has set his sights considerably higher...
When James Nachtwey graduated from Dartmouth in 1970, he didn't have a career mapped out. So he traveled around the world. Perhaps because the bloodshed in Vietnam was at its height, he became fascinated with war. He taught himself photography and spent hours staring at scenes of conflict in art books and at exhibitions. "Those pictures had the greatest emotional impact on me," Nachtwey recalls. "It seemed to me the most worthwhile thing one could do with a camera...