Word: pugilistic
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What happens when you put a prizewinning pugilist, an economist, a world-renowned opera singer, a Harvard House master and a television personality in the same room...
Thom Jones' justly praised first book was a collection of strong, hard-edged short stories called The Pugilist at Rest. The title was descriptive. Most of the characters were onetime boxers or soldiers, and there was a quality of rest -- of fate and damage accepted -- to the predicaments they described. The stories in the author's second collection, Cold Snap (Little, Brown; 240 pages; $19.95), are at least as powerful and as gritty with existential courage. But they are also rowdier, messier with life...
TITLE: THE PUGILIST AT REST...
...45th Venice Biennale is mostly stale, mannered stuff. MUSIC The syntho-dance band New Order reveals a human touch. Clues to composer Erich Korngold's Hollywood detour. BOOKS The surprising success of an Anita Hill debunking. The Pugilist at Rest introduces a striking short-story writer. THEATER Anna Deavere Smith illuminates the Los Angeles riots. TELEVISION A look at gay writer Armistead Maupin...
...them the "first interview on Iran-contra that Bush has done with any network." The day of the interview Rather had three one-hour rehearsals with the six people involved in the broadcast. He was coached as if he were a candidate preparing for a debate or a pugilist preparing for a fight, rather than a journalist going into an interview. Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush...