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...Needless to say, Harvard must find a way to shut down this prolific duo if they are to emerge victorious on Saturday. The Crimson certainly seems up to the task--with a successfully revamped defense and an attitude that Collins describes as "pumped up," Cornell could be the first in a long line of Harvard's Ivy League victims...
Marshall sidesteps into a more complicated dilemma involving his wife, a pretty student with whom he is flirting and a colleague charged with sexual abuse. Everyone in the novel, needless to say, turns out to be "another you" from the one apparent at the outset. But the narrative, crammed with choppy incident and dialogue, never gathers enough force to power the story. This is Beattie's first novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s...
HarperCollins editors say they were unaware of Ramus' financial problems when they bought the novel, but they are, needless to say, standing behind the book and its suddenly marketable author. "We worried that if he were in jail he wouldn't be able to do a book tour," says HarperCollins vice president Lawrence Ashmead. Never fear: the trial is scheduled for next month, and Ramus began his seven-city promotional blitz last week...
...creepy details are peculiar to Smith's case, but the message to girls is similarly demeaning: Love (of men) is the supreme adventure! The peak experience! The only possible redemption for a worthless little creature like you! And, needless to say, the love celebrated in songs and soap operas and romance novels is not the love for sticky-faced toddlers...
...Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate...