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...novel's unwritten law is that time eventually earns a dispensation for past sins. Tough old pros like Alfred Gronevelt, official owner of the Clericuzio-controlled Xanadu Hotel in Las Vegas, and ruthless Eli Marrion, geriatric head of LoddStone Studios, are, like the Don, the novel's honored guests. Puzo's younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A NEW FAMILY'S VALUES | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Number one Brian Buckley is out(Knee cartilage damage); Number two mike Buchanan is out (sprained ankle); Number three Ron Cuccia may play some splitend but not quarterback (pulled hamstring). Mark Marrion, the fourth stringer who endured such a pough afternoon at Dartmouth will get the call again...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In the Eye of the Storm | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

...must's confronting the Crimson here today, one point in the gridder's favor cannot go unnoticed. Man for man, they are a better team. Princeton's defense doesn't rate in the same class as Harvard's; offensively, insiders say Marrion is the best play-caller of all the Harvard quarterbacks and with the opportunity to start a ball game, he could shine. For Harvard to win, he must...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In the Eye of the Storm | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

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