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IN EVERY GROWN WOman there is an inner teenage girl--an awkward, dissatisfied someone who longs to be a more alluring someone else. This sadly enduring truth is explored with affecting accuracy in Emerald City (Doubleday; 178 pages; $22.50), a collection of short stories by Jennifer Egan, whose first novel...
"We were fortunate, praise the Lord, but this is not over," says Roberson. He intends to file a civil suit against the state, seeks the release of those in prison and supports a local campaign to have the U.S. Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her...
Despite his many noteworthy accomplishments, Dobrynin offers little self-praise in the book but he says nothing in the form of self-criticism either. At times this attitude of reporting his own actions without judging them calls into question his credibility--the reader is left wondering why he refuses to...
While the Los Angeles program--37% federally funded--wins praise from children's advocates, its sponsors fear its benefits will be canceled out by legislation now moving through Congress. With 4 million to 10 million children scheduled to be cut from the nation's welfare rolls in the next seven...
THE DRUMBEAT BEGAN AT THE Cannes Film Festival in May, and it is now more insistent than a migraine pulse. Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance in Georgia has won the sort of critics' raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination. This racket must cease. To praise Leigh in...