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Hear the language of the prairie wind. The muffled groan of a forgotten and rusted windmill. The taut, thin cry of a young hawk at a thousand feet poised on invisible thermal crests. The worried whispers of hundreds of millions of stalks of corn, ear to fat ear, leaf on leaf. It all says more in ten minutes about beginnings and endings, about hopes and disappointments than Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale have said in a year-a loud, loud year...
...elegant male, well dressed and sophisticated, but with a boyish, ingratiating smile, so dazzlingly toothy that, for safety's sake, it almost has to be viewed through smoked glass, like a solar eclipse. To keep the tan that has given his skin the color of a tobacco leaf, he has artfully arranged his schedule so that he is almost always in that half of the globe that is celebrating summer. When his 33-city U.S. tour ends Sept. 29, about the time of the first frost up north, he will race back to his $5 million home in Miami...
...Salieri was more daunting. He must be all smoldering menace, a dandy in smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with God." Forman says he chose these two off Broadway journeymen over stars, or over actors who had performed in the play, because "I wanted to believe that...
...world's short memory by newer and more fashionable tragedies. Though the author takes scrupulous pains to acknowledge the genuine accomplishments of the international agencies, he concludes that throughout one of the largest relief efforts in history nearly all the governments involved "used humanitarianism as a fig leaf for either the poverty or the ruthlessness of their politics." Founded on a basis of meticulous research, his book is, in the end, an elegy to good intentions ill directed and a cry of conscience on behalf of the 240,000 Kampuchean refugees who continue to haunt the limbo...
...frontier will have for South America, the book remains very much a fun read, highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine King of the World," head of a $400 million dollar operation which harvests, refines and exports the leaf, gathering it from the hillsides of Bolivia and transporting it to the skichalets of Aspen and the dorms of Choate...