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...give or take a million or two: ABC has also contracted to build a broadcast center at the Olympic site and to provide foreign networks with a clear signal out of the U.S. Even so, the network is certain it can fulfill Pierce's boast. "You can assume, making the bid we did, that we did a lot of homework," said Roone Arledge, president of the news and sports divisions. "We came into this with the idea we were going to make the best bid we could, and it was the only bid we made...
...fiction. Among them: the number of stories to tell is finite and dwindling; print has been rendered passe by film and electronics; realism is an irrational goal for the writer (What is real? Whose reality is it?); art rehashes art. Barth's response was to exalt artifice and make telling the subject of the tale. Giles Goat-Boy (1966) was less a novel than a treatise on the archetypes of heroism; some of the stories in Lost in the Funhouse (1968) suggested antiphonal readings between printed page and tape recorder, or struggled gamely just to get themselves started...
This problem might have been papered over with a vivid, engrossing surface, but Barth seems to have taken pains to make his letter writers as unattractive and self-absorbed as possible. He is one of them, thus dryly joining the ranks of the fictitious who think themselves actual, and five of the others either figure in or are suggested by his earlier books. The seventh is Lady Amherst, a fiftyish British widow who has fetched up on the Eastern Shore as a visiting lecturer at a jerk water Maryland college. As the new girl in the book, she commands initial...
...love with each other. After the fire, forbidden by a court ever to see the Butterfields again, David secretly begins tracking them down-in New York, then in Vermont. He is reunited with Jade. She is much changed, of course; it is part of Spencer's cunning to make the reader understand what an ordinary and vaguely disagreeable wom an she is becoming, and also know why David loves her so completely...
...German settlers McKay takes with him to the Kansas Territory make music boxes that play Old Dog Tray. The young wife McKay takes with him suffers from underwork, a cold heart and a galloping case of pre-feminism. She also dislikes the residents of her husband's hives. Catherine "knew that the bees were women. They were dignified, dangerous, purposeful women . . . Their lives were all work, all women's work-housekeeping and foraging. They spent their lives in domestic boredom...