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...contrast to the flatness of Schwamm's description, her dialogue is extraordinarily real. The novel does offer an unparalleled portrayal of the life of New York's leisurely class in the '80s; Schwamm's setting includes Max Ernst dresses, original Bauhaus furniture and Balducci's. The snubs and gossip at the parties and charity auctions which so bore Nora furnish some of the most absorbing information we receive, and here the narrative commentary finally achieves the appropriate level of irony...
...Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically tried to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
...great groundswells of popular movements that affect the minds and values of a generation or more. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement, on Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...
More recently, the Aussie market in America has diversified, featuring futuristic thrillers like Mad Max and The Road Warrior, as well as films depicting current Australian culture. This summer, for instance, Puberty Blues, with its raw portrayal of a distinctly Australian teenage-surfer subculture, arrived on the scene...
Associate Editor Patricia Blake's latest book is the result of her collaboration on four anthologies of Russian prose and poetry in English with the late British translator and critic Max Hayward. Blake has now edited and written a long introductory essay for a collection of Hayward's articles, Writers in Russia 1917-1978, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...