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...where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying out for montage." In the end there is nothing to cheer for; avaricious superpowers widen the cold war gulf. Lourie, a professional translator from Russian and Polish into English, knows his turf well, and his novel works as polemic and page turner. It chills in any language...
...World War II. USIA Director Wick has made combatting Soviet propaganda a personal crusade. On occasion, he has gone overboard. Shortly after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls of ridicule. But Wick has scored some coups. It was the USIA that put together the tape recording, played with such damning effect at the United Nations, of the voice of a Soviet fighter pilot as he coolly shot down Korean Airlines Flight...
...Writers Guild of America set new pay scales in March. An author now gets a minimum of $22,801 to do a treatment and screenplay for a low-budget film ($2.5 million or less) and $42,000 for a more expensive film. A rewrite and a "polish" can bring the high-budget price to $61,548, but a writer who has been around commands a good deal more, and fees can rise steadily with each unproduced script. Says a New York author who has sold three scripts: "If you write five a year--I get more offers than that...
...Poland, too, there appears to be a desire to improve relations between church and state. Last month Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski met with Jozef Cardinal Glemp for the first time in 17 months, and Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski paid a call on the Pope, the first by a Polish Cabinet member to the Holy See in 3 1/2 years...
Singer's fictional world has long consisted of three main realms, and this volume is divided pretty much equally among them. Eight stories are set in Polish villages or provincial small towns, where everyone knows everyone else's business and gossip is the preferred mode of entertainment. "There were no secrets in Krashnik," says the narrator of The Image. "People peered into keyholes and listened behind doors." Thus when the marriage between a village beauty and a bright yeshiva boy remains stubbornly unconsummated, the odd reason why cannot long escape becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural...