Word: presented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been for backwater insurance agent turned blockbuster novelist Tom Clancy. Forget the four straight best sellers published since 1984 and the 20 million copies sold. Forget the movie version of his first novel, now in production. Forget the $4 million advance for his latest thriller, Clear and Present Danger. Forget such crass calculus of cash- register commerce...
This time around, in writing Clear and Present Danger (Putnam; $21.95), which is being published this week, Clancy got mad. Not at his usual villains, like the Soviets or international terrorists. Instead, what aroused his ire was what the Iran-contra affair revealed about "how the Government makes decisions, what kind of people make those decisions, and what happens when things go wrong." That is what settling insurance claims teaches: how often in real life things go wrong. And when that happens to soldiers and spooks, Clancy says, "very often you get hung out to dry. All those Marines...
...thrillers -- of which the latest, Clear and Present Danger, is out this week -- have made him the military's minstrel. Now the ex-insurance man longs to live the life he writes about...
...authors have put together a feel-good anthology, tracing the "Woodstock Generation" from the concert itself to the present, and even projecting it into the next decade...
...They are trying to present to the world that we in the Soviet Union now have a federation built on the will of the people," said Alvydas Juozaitis of the Lithuanian popular front, Sajudis. That is impossible as long as the Red Army "occupies" the republic, he said...