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That The Information is about literary envy complicates the story. Amis denies that the book is a roman e clef, and indeed, the characters are too over the top for positive identification. Martin Amis, the son of novelist Kingsley Amis, has always been eager to show that he can juggle words better and push satire further than his competition, including Dad. But there are limits, and they are beginning to show...
DIED. SIDNEY KINGSLEY, 88, playwright; in Oakland, New Jersey. Kingsley's stage works were known for their flinty realism and social crusading. Dead End decried the slums of New York, inspiring New Deal public-housing legislation (forever tagging the young actors who appeared in the film version as "The Dead End Kids"). The 1933 Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White proselytized for abortion rights-and created much of the narrative vocabulary for all medical melodramas that followed. Kingsley's 1949 blend of Freud and fisticuffs, Detective Story, had a similar impact on the now ubiquitous, then trailblazing cops-and-crooks...
Lisa has been released and is back in Britain. Nick's immediate future is uncertain. Singapore has requested his extradition, and Leeson will no doubt contest any attempt to send him back to Asia. In addition to a German lawyer, Leeson has retained lawyers from Kingsley Napley, Britain's leading firm specializing in white-collar crime. Leeson, said Christopher Murray, his attorney at the firm, simply wanted to return to England "to put the record straight." Leeson's sister Sarah, 18, was emphatic. "One person can't lose all that money," she said. "They are playing on his background, making...
...joined by Leake, who limited Babson's leading scorer, Michael Kingsley, (26.3 points per game entering Saturday's contest) to 14 points on five of 17 shooting from the field...
Thomas Keneally, in contrast, happily picked up the tape of his book Schindler's List and was pleased with the four-hour adaptation read by Ben Kingsley. "The text is not an amputee," he says. "I felt that it represented the essence of the thing very well." After refusing to allow audio condensations of his previous novels, E.L. Doctorow permitted his latest, The Waterworks, to be cut to four audio hours. "I have changed my position on this," he says. "It is pretty clear to me that print culture is under enormous assault today. I take the position now that...