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Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two cops who hate each other's guts are sitting in a Chevy Blazer, doing some kind of surveillance near Boston. And talking. Always talking, in Higgins' novels; mean, edged, sly talk that goes on endlessly and, it seems, aimlessly until, to the astonishment of talkers and readers, it has coiled around...
...unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages; $22.50) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two cops who hate each other's guts are sitting in a Chevy Blazer, doing some kind of surveillance near Boston. And talking. Always talking, in Higgins' novels; mean, edged, sly talk that goes on endlessly and, it seems, aimlessly until, to the astonishment of talkers and readers, it has coiled...
...unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
...parent who habitually takes a child to MacDonald's or otherwise feeds that child unhealthy food any less deserving of custody? What about a parent who allows his child to watch long hours of television?" Some nonindustry observers agree, conjuring up visions of government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social-services agents on their doorsteps, asking 'May I come in and make sure there are no cigarettes, cigars or pipes on your premises?' " Counters ASH's Banzhaf: "Nobody is telling parents they can't smoke...