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...1920s names that could come straight out of P.G. Wodehouse: Toupie, Winaretta, Honey, Budge...and an apparently endless succession of Violets. But Hall's wide network of personal and professional acquaintances also included many of the period's most famous feminists, suffragettes, and publicly visible lesbians-- such as the novelist May Sinclair, the composer Dame Ethel Smythe, and the Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks. Her literary acquaintances were similarly eminent (and, in many cases, similarly "deviant"): Hall's partner Una Troubridge first translated the sexually daring French author Colette's works into English; Hall and the English playwright Noel Coward...
...grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
...economy revived, but an outsize share of the benefit seemed to flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than...
TIME emphatically agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME's phrase but the factual report of typical angry reactions documented by correspondents all over the U.S. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), a reclusive English novelist, has had so little contact with the late 20th century that he can't tell a microwave from a VCR. One day, by mistake, he watches a trashy teenpic called Hotpants College 2 and finds, he thinks, a reason for loving. In an actor named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), Giles sees all the beauty of the ages in one glorious package. The donnish writer buys fan mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part...