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...after Dunne died. "I had a sense that this book wasn't written at all," she says. "I just sort of sat down and typed it. It wasn't written in the sense that I usually write things." Didion's prose is usually buffed to a high polish, but with this book she deliberately made the writing less smooth, taking out the transitions ("I was sort of crazy, so transitions really didn't figure") and waving off copy editors to keep it feeling choppy, unpolished, unmediated. "I really thought that if it was going to have any value...
...falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...good performance today,” said Harvard coach John Kerr. “We just didn’t execute those times when we had opportunities to polish them off and get that second goal which would have buried them...
...joining a variety of short-lived post-Solidarity parties before co-founding Civic Platform. Once a staunch anticommunist, he has recently cultivated an image as a "moderate, liberal" politician with solid family values. Unlike Kaczynski, he eschews heated anticommunist rhetoric, promising instead to restore "dignity, honor and unselfishness" to Polish political life. And he has thrown himself into the campaign with a vengeance, stumping through the August holidays and dotting the countryside with huge billboards extolling president tusk: a man with principles. The strategy has paid off. Tusk was polling at just 19% in early August...
...Harvard captain and power-hitting catcher plied his trade for four years of highs and lows, rounding out his talents with polish and savvy...