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Conley has rich material--horse-mad plutocrats, grisly sexual mishaps--and his prose is never less than engaging. He endows pampered Storm Cat, who commands half a million dollars for a roll in the hay, with "the hauteur and the low body fat of an underwear model." But once you are past the bizarreness of high- end horse prostitution, the book leaves you feeling a little jaded. Like the participants in the loveless couplings he describes, Conley doesn't invest a lot of emotion in his subject. Line for line, Conley is twice the writer Squires...
Seirawan, the top-ranked American player, may be the game's last best hope. One of the few voices of reason in a game full of mad geniuses, he has been circulating a compromise proposal: create separate world championships for classical, rapid and ultra-fast blitz chess and appoint a chess commissioner to mediate between players and organizers. His plan will be discussed at a players' meeting in Prague...
Emerging into painful consciousness the next afternoon, I decide to salve my pounding head with a shopping spree (and half a bottle of aspirin). I skip the overpriced stores of Shangxiajiu and go to Dongshan district for cheap, brand-name Western garments. I then proceed to go mad, spending $106 on clothes, including a $7 leather "Gucci" wallet the clerk assures me was made in Italy?which must be what they're calling Shenzhen...
...Winchell announced, with apparent pleasure, that it lost $2 million) and invisible at awards time (it was the only one of Lehman's 50s scripts that did not win a Writers Guild nomination). Since then, "Sweet Smell" has become a retro-classic. Its wonderfully ornate cynicism is cited in "Mad Max," "Diner," "Rain Man" and "Boogie Nights" and on "The Simpsons"; this week's A&E special "New York at the Movies" had Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and Peter Bogdanovich reciting passages of dialogue from memory...
...MAD MONEY...