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...aftermath of King's murder, rioting and looting broke out in 62 cities from coast to coast. In manic reaction, the plunderers went about their business in an almost carnival atmosphere. Looting-"early Easter shopping," as one Harlem resident called it-was the predominant activity, though some ghettos were burned as well...
...Australian campaign has had an unlikely Nelson: Allan Bond, 45, a chunky, feisty Perth entrepreneur and onetime sign painter, who has spent $16 million in ten years pursuing what many of his countrymen dismissed as a manic obsession. This is his fourth bid, Australia II his third boat. In Ben Lexcen, 47, Bond found a naval architect who could radically change the design of a 12-meter boat, a field that has seen little technological innovation in years. In secret tank tests in The Netherlands, Lexcen developed a keel like nothing ever used before: with two delta-type wings weighing...
...from freelancing for the Evil Eye, a leftist Greenwich Village weekly that resembles the Village Voice (where Breasted once labored), to a coveted staff job on the Newspaper, a dignified daily that is unmistakably the New York Times. Sarah's boss is City Editor Ron Millstein, an endearingly manic liar who does not resemble Times Editors Arthur Gelb and A.M. Rosenthal. After spending weeks trying to find city hall by subway, committing Pulitzer-worthy sex with an undercover policeman and discovering the delights of midtown restaurants, she stumbles upon the Big Story: how a presidential candidate tried to have...
Compared with that spoof, Bylines is almost as sober and magisterial as the Times. Bernard Weinraub still reports for the Times from Washington, or at least he did before this book came out. His story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor...
Presiding over the music in magisterial fashion at his Bayreuth debut was Solti, 70. The manic drive and headlong energy that once characterized his Wagner have since been tempered by a lyrical impulse that has broadened and deepened his interpretation, although he has lost some of his electric excitement in the process. When, as for much of this Ring, there was nothing compelling to look at onstage, the listener could always concentrate with pleasure on the primary motivating force of Wagner's unique vision: the music...