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...dust jacket of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's latest (and probably last) book, promises some sort of science-fiction fantasy ride through a highly ironic universe. "Futurology!" it screams, "Ten years of deja vu all over again!" Unfortunately for Douglas Adams fans, nothing could be further from the truth. You can't really blame the poor dust jacket writer, who had the unenviable task of summarizing, in concise and entertaining prose, the essence of a book that defies easy classification...
Cohen, dressed in a jacket but no tie, initially told his roommates that he was turned away for being inappropriately dressed for the occasion. "This is really funny. I want to comp the Lampoon now," Cohen said...
...narrative style has gained a touch of weight since his agreeable turn-of-the-century detective novel The Alienist (1994), but perhaps no more than success justifies. The reader is inclined to nod indulgently--at the new novel's 629 pages, at the rustle of the writer's smoking jacket and at the swirl of the great man's brandy. That's the illusion--author as Basil Rathbone--that Carr, 42, persuades us to believe...
...Woods winning the Masters by an incredible 12 strokes just four months after his 21st birthday. But it has become the Year of the Young Lions. For the first time in history, the first three majors have been won by players under age 30, with Woods getting the green jacket, South African Ernie Els, 27, collecting his second U.S. Open trophy and Texan Justin Leonard, 25, taking home the claret jug of the British Open. All in all, twenty-somethings have fired enough 60-somethings to win 15 of the 30 events on the tour this year. Five...
...riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from one suit and the jacket from another. (See Eulogy below...