Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social Democratic Party who gave a major speech at the October demonstration, is also refusing to attend this week's rally, explaining that he "did not intend to participate in a purely anti-Reagan demonstration." Another speaker at the earlier event, Nobel Prize-winning West German Novelist Heninrich Böll, will not be present on Thursday. In recent interview Böll said: "Inasmuch as the Communists are controlled from Moscow, their orders are to destroy what is meaningful in these movements by taking part in them and indeed by forcing their way into them...
Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...movie's overweening manner. This time no one is out to zap the teen market with an imitation Star Wars. The special effects, for example, are modest and traditional, mostly models bopping around star fields. There is an easy sureness about Nicholas Meyer's direction (the sometime novelist also did a good job on Time After Time three years ago): he trusts his solid material. So instead of the strain that was almost palpable in Enterprise's first voyage into the alien territory of theaters, there is something comfortable, even old-shoeish, about the new film...
...Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist Richard Condon's Prizzi family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice...
Condon's stylish prose and rich comedic gift once again spice a moral sensibility that has animated 16 novels since The Manchurian Candidate appeared in 1962. If wit and irony could somehow neutralize villainy, the novelist would make a fine FBI director. Prizzi's Honor, like most of his books, comes sometimes too close to the truth for comfort, and it has what many may regard as a shocking end. On the other hand, the crime family survives, its billions and precious omerta intact. And that, Richard Condon points out, makes it "the all-American success story...