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...football and nuclear war, brought him wide and serious attention. But without bestseller sales figures or a dependable cult following, he has become something of a reviewer's writer, a provider of topical allegories ripe for explanation and interpretation. Great Jones Street confronted the void of celebrity, and Ratner's Star measured the gap between science and humanity. There were terrorists in Players, spies and pornography in Running Dog and cult killers in The Names...
...Williamson-Ratner (C) d. Scott-Laddin...
...Sands-Scott (H) d Ratner-Inouye 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. 2. Benan-Beckman (H) d Handelsman-Manells 6-0, 6-2, 3 Grossman Fountaine (H) d Jacobs-Saeio...
...Howard Sands (H) d Evan Ratner 6-3, 6-3, 2 Warren Grossman (H) d Gary Jacobs 6-2, 6-4, 3 Dave Backman (H) d Masao inouye 6-4, 6-2, 4 Larry Scott (H) d NentHandelsinan 6-3, 6-2, 5 Kenkleinfeld (H) d Paul Saputo 7-6, 7-6, 6 St. Fountaina (H) d Art Martella...
Hostages in Iran; mendicants trampled near the Ganges; Hindus and Muslims arguing and imploring in a post-Sanskrit Babel of belief. This is the ominous Oriental setting of Don DeLillo's (End Zone, Ratner's Star) seventh and most accomplished novel. There, in prose as vivid and densely knotted as a prayer rug, his characters find freshly printed petrodollars competing with ancient formality. This, in DeLillo's phrase, is the world of "plastic sandals and public beheadings...