Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complex plot offers interlocking instances of an eternal struggle between good and evil; in each case, the reader finds himself cunningly misled. Sprechman's theme, hinted rather than hammered at, is that life is a moral conundrum in which people are forced to make choices long before they can grasp the consequences. Despite some paranormal elements, Caribe does not read like a spiritual tract or a cheap shocker: the supernatural portions are elegant, almost metaphysical asides. Sprechman, 66, has worked in the movie industry for more than 25 years, as financial vice president of Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures...
...reader may think that this whole scheme is quite ludicrous. However, pause and reflect for a minute that from ancient history to the present, Jerusalem--the holiest of all cities--has been a motivating factor behind some of the bloodiest wars on the globe...
PARTIAL EXHILARATION, partial disappointment: one reader's response to this latest collection of essays by Roland Barthes. Intellectual morsels, released posthumously for our literary delectation--they can only be read in the light of all that has gone before, all that has been said and done, Barthes' own deja-dit, deja-vecu...
Some workers get so freaked out on drugs that they become a menace to everyone around them. A meter reader for a Washington utility became crazed after taking PCP and ran from one backyard to another. He hid behind bushes and jumped out and screamed at frightened neighborhood residents until police arrested him. In New Jersey a dentist who injected himself with three syringes of cocaine every morning as he drove down the turnpike to work began to complain that the fillings he was putting into patients' mouths were talking to him. His partners quickly forced the dentist to sell...
Alejandro is an illusive character because his friends and enemies tell contradictory stories about him, but more important because the narrator repeatedly reminds the reader that his investigations are a preparation for lying, for conjuring a fiction. Such modernist hugger-mugger has great potential for tedium. But Vargas Llosa's lucid intellect and technical gifts allow him to toy with uncertainty and shuffle time with deceptive ease. A good deal of Peru's mournful history and wretched present are economically conveyed. Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort...