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Cher decides to stick with marrying Johnny, and to resolve her guilt she goes to confessional. "Pray for me, father, for I have sinned," she tells the priest, adding as casually as she might recite a shopping list that she has twice taken the Lord's name in vain, slept with the brother of her fiance, and once knocked someone over by accident. The priest simply tells her to say two rosaries...
Editor in Chief Roger Straus Jr. and his closely knit family of editors and writers have had quite a year. Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities is currently No. 1 on the best-seller lists. Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, a summer smash, is No. 3. Earlier in the year Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and Philip Roth's The Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar...
Complete with a Big Daddy and a Kindly Uncle. Roger Straus Jr., 71, is brawny, with silver hair and a salty tongue. Editorial Board Chairman Robert Giroux, 73, is more reserved, an inside man whose contributions to the list include T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud. The outspoken Straus bluntly rejects the nostalgic notion that publishing was once a gentlemen's business. "They were poor businessmen," he says of many of the resonant names of the profession, "poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation...
...Harvard women's basketball team added one prestigious record to its list of accomplishments and moved closer to a second during its 62-57 victory over the Brown Bruins last night at Marvel Gym in Providence...
...that even though the groundskeepers did a good job of clearing main arteries, he could not reach his car because of snow-covered streets and sidewalks. In order to make certain that routes to their destinations are cleared, he said, disabled students must give the grounds maintenance department a list of times they need walks cleared...