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PENTIMENTO: A BOOK OF PORTRAITS by LILLIAN HELLMAN 297 pages. Little, Brown...
...Lillian Hellman has had the kind of life that Zelda Fitzgerald and many another lost lady wanted and thought she deserved. Hellman drank with the big boys, but held her liquor and her health. Her 30-year love affair with Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) was the kind of tough-tender romance that Hemingway daydreamed about in his novels. Most important, she had a successful career as a playwright: twelve Broadway plays, eight of them hits, and one, The Little Foxes, a classic...
...would be pleasant to report that Hellman writes her memoirs in the same forthright, energetic fashion as she apparently lived her life. Alas, not so. Four years ago, she published a quirky, episodic volume called An Unfinished Woman. Her new book covers different material in the form of portraits of people whom she loved at one time or other, plus a chapter about life in the theater and an anomalous, charming piece about a snapping turtle...
...money will be used for research on molecular biology, cellular radiation biology, tumor immunology, and the genetic effect of radiation. Many of these study areas were already under research, although, as Hellman added, "We would have had to scrap a number of these projects without this support...
...terms of the specific grant," Hellman said, "we feel no pressure at all. Those who have had money granted for buildings may feel some political pressure. Our purpose is to improve our ability to transfer the results of the lab into the clinic...