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Moore plays Sarah Miles, the wife of an unutterably dull civil servant (Stephen Rea) who enters into a dalliance with an intense, emotionally greedy novelist named Maurice Bendrix (a fiercely glowering Ralph Fiennes). Set in wartime London and the grayish postwar years, it is, to borrow Greene's favorite word, a routinely "seedy" coupling. Until the afternoon when, taking a break from their lovemaking, Maurice steps out of the room and a buzz bomb strikes. She thinks he's dead, drops to her knees and prays: if God will spare him, she will give him up. Whereupon Maurice returns...
...Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company to withdraw it. Like an overeager novelist, Gel Tech had given away too much of the ending before the story appeared in print...
...contrast, Isabel Allende's Eliza Sommers runs circles around everyone else in Daughter of Fortune. Allende, raised in Chile and currently residing in California, is probably the most widely read Latin American woman novelist ever published. She transfers a variation of this distinction to Eliza, who breaks every rule of 19th century Valparaiso society to seek her callow lover in gold-crazed California...
Richard C. Marius, the former director of Harvard's Expository Writing program, a Reformation scholar and an acclaimed novelist, died at his home in Belmont on Friday from pancreatic cancer...
Historians should step aside for this husband-wife team, he a Wall Street Journal editor, she a novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...