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Among the cruel ironies that have haunted the career of Indonesia's most acclaimed and influential writer, one stands out as especially grotesque. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's masterwork, four related novels known as the Buru Quartet, deals with the brutally oppressive Dutch rule of his country at the turn of the century; but the regime that burned his manuscripts and library, beat him so that he remains half deaf, jailed him for 14 years without charges or trial and still bans his books and restricts his travel is not Dutch but Indonesian...
Hype flows freely in such cases, and it is probably too late to make a strictly literary judgment of the Buru Quartet, whose concluding volume, House of Glass, has just been published in the U.S. by Morrow (365 pages; $26). The view here is that the quartet is indeed a marvel, but especially in its third and fourth volumes an exceedingly slow-moving and discursive marvel. The turbulent and bitterly angry first book, This Earth of Mankind, is the key to the rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this...
Houston, a former member of the '60s R.-and-B. quartet The Sweet Inspirations, isn't as famous as her superstar daughter Whitney, but Face to Face shows she's got a throat made from the same 18-karat gold. And although the elder Houston's new album probably won't sell as well as slicker, more contemporary-sounding gospel releases--and it certainly won't move as many units as the typical Whitney CD--its unabashed religiosity indicates that Houston has her sights set on a higher, very personal audience...
MUSIC . . . CISSY HOUSTON'S FACE TO FACE: A former member of the '60s R.-and-B. quartet 'The Sweet Inspirations,' Cissy Houston isn't as famous as her superstar daughter Whitney, but her new album Face to Face shows she's got a throat made from the same 18-karat gold. And although the elder Houston's new album probably won't sell as well as slicker, more contemporary-sounding gospel releases -- and it certainly won't move as many units as the typical Whitney CD -- its unabashed religiosity indicates that Houston has her sights set on a higher, very...
...choice. Dole is under pressure from Pat Buchanan to pick a pro-life candidate. Both Whitman and Powell are pro-choice. Buchanan has threatened to launch an independent run for the White House if the Republican ticket and platform are not anti-abortion. Whitman's announcement leaves a quartet of Midwest governors as the leading vice- presidential contenders. Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Ohio's George Voinovich and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson all played visible roles in Dole's Midwest campaign earlier this month...