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LIBRA by Don DeLillo (Viking; $19.95). Another conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this one fictional, mingling real people -- like Lee Harvey Oswald -- with an imaginary cabal of disgruntled CIA types...
LIBRA by Don DeLillo (Viking; $19.95). Another conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this one fictional, mingling real people like Lee Harvey Oswald with an imaginary cabal of disgruntled CIA types...
...loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture him as a wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare films are more than a Freddy phenomenon. With sharp humor, a dash of B-movie style and the eerie simplicity of a child's counting rhyme, they tap profound adolescent fears, then exorcise them...
...Cuba, because Kennedy had secretly ordered the C.I.A. to consider and research the assassination of Castro. If the plan succeeded, President Kennedy would be tricked into renewing hostilities with Cuba. Somewhere along the line, of course, the plan got out of control, escaped responsible hands, and Lee Harvey Oswald, alone or assisted, did not miss...
Despite DeLillo's fictional explanations, Oswald remains a cipher. He is a confusion, even to himself. He reads and writes with pain and difficulty. He repeats to himself, as if it were a mantra, his suspicion that, "There is a world within the world." Everything, he believes, is about him; everything has meaning...