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...Germany's biggest magazines has pushed him too far. Cruise, who has two adopted children with wife NICOLE KIDMAN, is suing Bunte for $60 million for quoting him in a Q.-and-A. as saying that he has a "zero sperm count." According to Cruise's publicist Pat Kingsley, "Not only is it not true, but he didn't say it." Bunte, which just lost a lawsuit to Princess Caroline, has fired its deputy editor but says many magazines have made this claim before...
AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF HIS first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis found himself pigeonholed as one of the Angry Young Men, postwar British writers from the lower classes who seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room...
...kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep breaking down and refusing to restart somewhere in Germany. Both times I became incapable with laughter...
...three poets were introduced by Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, who gave a brief talk on the continuing relationship between the visual and the plastic arts...
Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare expert and cultural critic, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times op-ed page. A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, an unparalleled expert on poetry, writes for the New Yorker and other publications. The author of the recent book "Soul Says," Vendler is also a contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review section. (In June, Vendler reviewed Bill Moyer's new book, "A Festival of Poets...