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...Peters of the Washington Monthly and William Whitworth of the Atlantic Monthly, and he has done them proud. Although many of his criticisms are not new--they have probably been voiced by every President since George Washington and have been examined in greater depth by such books as Thomas Patterson's sharp 1993 treatise Out of Order--Fallows has the standing within the journalistic community to give them fresh force...
This may not be progress (What do guys know about lipstick stains on teeth?). At any rate, the results are, as critics say while fishing for a coin to toss, mixed. The Final Judgment, by Richard North Patterson (Knopf; 437 pages; $25), is less than it should be, given the author's success with his earlier books Eyes of a Child and Degree of Guilt. These are tough, well-plotted legal thrillers, set in California, with a good mix of believable male and female characters. The new story takes one of the supporting actors from the earlier books, a judge...
...Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things are, she is simply a stick-figure lawyer who happens to have a woman's name. Had Patterson hit the replace key on his word processor and swapped "George" for "Caroline" just before finishing his final draft, it would be fairly hard to tell there had been a change (excepting the fact that the book would then become a gay romance...
DIED. CLAIR PATTERSON, 73, geochemist who in the early '50s established the age of the earth and the solar system as 4.6 billion years; of asthma; in Sea Ranch, California...
...this not as someone who is necessarily an actively religious person,...but because I think Luther's influence, both directly and indirectly, had a more transforming effect on Western civilization than anyone else that I can think of," Patterson said...