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...Space Illiad," "Pride and Extreme Prejudice" and "The Library of Yiddish Sequels." Presented as a spoof of pretentious book collections, the "Yiddish Sequels" page contains some of this book's most memorable one-liners. Among the 80 titles: "Oy, Wilderness," "Two Gentile Men of Verona" and "To His Goy Mistress...
...Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...
Farrakhan conveniently failed to mention the mayor's friends and associates who detailed countless instances of Barry's drug abuse. Nor did he mention the damning video tape depicting the mayor's rendezvous with his mistress and crack cocaine. To Farrakhan and the rest of Barry's cheering section, these are irrelevant because the real culprit is "white racism...
LIKE a man accused of a bank robbery who defends himself by saying that he was with his mistress the whole time, the University recently wiggled out of allegations of illegality by confessing to immorality. In a recent investigation of Harvard's admissions policies, the U.S. Department of Education accepted the University's contention that suspiciously low percentages of Asian-Americans admissions were caused not by illegal discrimination, but by Harvard's practice of extending preferential treatment to recruited athletes and children of alumni--groups which include few Asian-Americans...
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow; 399 pages; $21.95), is one of a large and growing subgenre of evil-Greek-shipowner thrillers. Nasty fellows, those fictional Greek shipowners. This one, rich and loathsome Constantin Demiris, has arranged that his unfaithful mistress and her lover, Demiris' pilot, be executed for the supposed murder of the pilot's wife, beautiful, trusting American Catherine Alexander. But he is still angry, and he strides about his villa like Richard III, gloating in a long, italic aside about what he is going to do to Catherine, who lost her memory during a boat explosion...