Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year Cloud had resigned as executive editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and returned to Washington to write a novel. But Cloud, a TIME correspondent from 1968 to 1978, responded positively when his alma mater asked him for an encore. "He writes, edits and reports, as well as manages people splendidly," says Talbott. "On a scale of one to ten, Stan's a twelve." Says Cloud: "This job meets my main criterion for journalistic employment...
...call The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe's first novel is to make a distinction without too much difference. The ingeniously rigged plot is clearly fictional, but the details of New York City life, high and low, leap from the legman's notebook. The novel first appeared in Rolling Stone four years ago and ran in 27 installments. Since then, Wolfe has thoroughly rewritten it. The crucial change was to make the leading character a Wall Street broker (pre Black Monday) instead of a writer. "Writers are not much affected by scandal," says the author, "but bond salesmen...
...Journalist Tom Wolfe' s first novel satirizes the New York style. -- Historian John Keegan analyzes military commanders...
...disturbing play for modern audiences, partly because of the overtones of morbidity and homosexuality in the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio, and partly because of the characters' anti-Semitism toward Shylock. The Currier House Drama Society production of Merchant tries to lessen audience anxiety by addressing these issues in novel ways and by taking advantage of opportunities for humor in what is, after all, supposed to be a comedy...
...this novel has something more on its mind than escapist entertainment. The fates of Rogers, Jamal and a sizable cast of supporting players are meticulously connected to the larger forces that are tearing a society to shreds. Although the CIA and its people make mistakes, they are not the villains of the piece. Rogers' innocence rests in his belief that he and his country can apply reasonableness and common sense to a situation they do not understand. History does not bear out that assumption, and neither does this disturbing novel...