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Despite the fairy-tale ending of Marquez' novel, the magical realism which dominated the prose of his previous works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch is surprisingly subtle in this latest work. No sleeping women spout anger and green blood, no plagues of forgetfulness rain down upon forgotten towns. Furthermore, conversation with spirits is relatively nonexistent in Love in the Time of Cholera and babies with corkscrew tails are not to be found...
Citing an "enormous chilling effect" from the decision, Random House Lawyer Gerald Hollingsworth indicates that Scott Donaldson's forthcoming biography of John Cheever has been shorn of some of Cheever's illustrative and idiosyncratic phrases. Last year Macmillan shelved The Binghams of Louisville after a copyright challenge from Family Patriarch Barry Bingham Sr., former head of the Louisville Courier-Journal media empire...
...media plantation that eventually included the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, a local TV station and two radio stations. Famous in their own state, the Binghams were something less than household names around the country. But then came that chilly January day in 1986 when the 79-year-old patriarch, Barry Bingham Sr., announced that he was selling the business because of incessant bickering among his son and two daughters. The long-ticking Bingham tensions exploded into print, with reporters (who, truth be told, relish stories about the troubled lives of newspaper barons) relating every sad fact...
...European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...
State and federal officials said they were determined to resolve the standoff without bloodshed. The police fired no shots, out of concern for the children in the compound and perhaps out of sensitivity to the events of nine years ago. Inside the fortified cabin, the spirit of the stubborn patriarch was very much alive...