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Morris Renek is one of those rare novelists with the ability to take overly familiar scenes of city life and infuse them with fresh vitality. In The Big Hello, he explored with remarkable humor a middle-aged Jew's bumbling attempt at divorce. In Siam Miami, the passionate subject was a stardom-bound girl singer's fight against the sleazy power brokers of pop music. In his third novel, Renek tackles with gusto yet another conventional modern situation-a young man's rage against life in the ghetto. This one happens to be the old-fashioned Jewish...
...from the final fade-out as she says goodby to Cohen and Coppola, hello to Stuart and Tobalina. It's much, much too early for Liz Renay to write her epitaph. But when she's ready, it'll be there. In fact, she's already composed a little verse on the subject of female liberation that could itself do perfectly well...
...Holliday walks in out of the prairie dust. Kate Elder, now off the line and making a home, looks up from her work. "Hiya, bones," she says. Hello, bitch," he smiles...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (2,844). On July 21, this endearing folkfest will replace Hello, Dolly! as the longest-running musical in Broadway history, and it eminently merits the honor. As Tevye, Paul Lipson is a warm, strong father figure, perplexed and bedeviled by his daughters and his God, but not about to be squelched by either...
McNamara overawed the generals and admirals who worked for him, and he barely disguised his contempt for the military way of doing things. His notion of opening a conversation was not "Hello" but "I've got ten minutes for this one." And ten minutes it was. The military resented the fact that he and his small band of "Whiz Kids" shunned their advice and blithely turned down the weapons they wanted. They grudgingly admitted that McNamara's cost-effectiveness program had brought rationality to much Pentagon planning, but they could not forgive him for never admitting...