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...middle of all this, Huston decides to stage a hilarious wedding for a visiting pal from Hollywood. But to state that the plot concerns a bride and groom is like saying that Moby-Dick is about fishing. Bradbury's latest effort is really a fond look back at his year of living dangerously. That was the time when hangovers, lies and fatigue were balanced by workmen's compensation: good talk, new friends and material for the most entertaining book in a distinguished 50-year career...
...artists and intellectuals, trying to explicate her mystery, who did the most to propagate her legend. She was Ernest Hemingway's pal (he called her "the Kraut"), and she conducted famous liaisons with men ranging from John Wayne to the gloomy popular novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Yet she was also a devoted mother and grandmother who never divorced her only husband, even after he became a chicken rancher in the San Fernando Valley. She was, everyone agreed, "sexy," but no one ever satisfactorily defined the nature of her appeal, which eventually settled into a dislocating combination of threat and good...
...Chilean pavilion has a 60-ton iceberg in an indoor pond. But it's the well-conceived, meticulously wrought Norwegian pavilion that triumphs in the ice-water category. In fact, Norway's building, a witty, sublime little Constructivist jewel box designed by Oslo architect Pal Henry Engh, is among the best at Expo...
When I was in tenth grade, my pal Aubrey introduced me to the music of Camper Van Beethoven. After listening to Third Album, I was a groupie. Everything about Camper, from the violinist to the song titles and offbeat album cover, appealed to my bizarre adolescent psyche. I listened to them when I was awake; I listened to them when I was asleep; I bought their LP's their EP's, a three-inch CD single, their violinist's solo album, their collaborations with Eugene Chadbourne and all of the albums done by a spin-off group, Monks of Doom...
...Myerson decided he could build another Finley-size business overnight. His pal William Simon introduced him to former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who accepted a $500,000 annual draw largely for lending his conservative name to the shingle. Myerson & Kuhn soon boasted 170 lawyers, but the firm had to borrow just to pay its high-profile partners, and Myerson's spending habits worsened the crunch. By 1989 the partnership was in Chapter...