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MAXINE WATERS. Her style is sandpapery, her ambition transparent. As a California state assemblywoman, she has made a lot of enemies with her back-room maneuvering and habit of publicly dressing down opponents. "There is no one who wants to square off against Maxine," says Democratic Party Strategist Mickey Kantor admiringly. But foes and fans alike agree that Waters, 45, is articulate, hardworking and creative. She has emerged as the most powerful woman in California political circles and, after Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, the second most powerful black...
...physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name or a romance novel by a Rosemary Klein Kantor. Duluth is dislocated along the Mexican border next to "the winding Colorado River that empties into palm-lined Lake Erie...
...Kantor is a Prospero with a word processor hooked to a memory bank stuffed with 10,000 popular novels. Her books are put together with pieces of these old fictions. But there can be glitches: "Rosemary's word processor is on the blink and she is not getting the sort of scenes that Rogue Duke needs. But Redbook is pressing her. So Rosemary tries to dredge up some Georgette Heyer channel-packet stuff. Instead Rosemary gets a Bulwer-Lytton trireme, by mistake...
...David Kantor, a junior and member of the sailing team, said, "The facilities here are as good as or better than almost anywhere else, and the boats are certainly better maintained." Chuck Rogers, a Business School student, agreed. "This place is really well run, the equipment is good, and they show you how everything works," he explained...
DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...