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...BOTTOM LINE: Norman Maclean's evocative novella of amazing grace is captured with understated artistry...
...HAUNTED BY WATERS," Norman Maclean wrote at the end of A River Runs Through It, his memoir-novella about growing up in Montana in the early years of this century. The phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing in mountain streams with his brother Paul, fly-fishing for trout; curious because Maclean's prose is dry and laconic, nothing watery about it. It does not rush or eddy or -- heaven forfend -- gurgle. It runs steady and clear, and beneath its surface you sense the darting shadows of powerful emotions...
...Fifth Man," the British spy for the Soviet Union who worked with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt during and after World War II? For four decades, espionage fans have had no shortage of suspects. Last year Soviet defector Oleg Gordievsky published a book, KGB: The Inside Story, in which he fingered a scholarly Cambridge graduate named John Cairncross as the mystery man. Cairncross admitted long ago that he spied for the Soviets, but at the level of a footsoldier and in an effort to aid a wartime ally. The British government believed...
...that he has jumped on the entrepreneurial bandwagon, MacLean will drive that bandwagon as fast and as far as he can. He is trying to have his "How to Beat the SAT" manual published, and he is drawing up plans to branch out to other schools...
...like to set up franchises of this business, give them all the materials, and I'd be a coordinator and get proceeds from all their earnings," MacLean said...