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...assessing the perpetual thinking machine that goes by the name of Mortimer Adler, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says, "There is something marvelously relentless about him." Both the marvel and the relentlessness shine through in Adler's newly published Ten Philosophical Mistakes (Macmillan; $12.95), which takes to task a Who's Who of the major philosophers since Thomas Aquinas. In the process, the book tells the rest of the world not only what to think but also why it should follow the latest gospel according to Mortimer...
When the retrial of Claus von Bulow on charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections began in Providence last week, the media glare was even more relentless than last time. The Danish aristocrat's wife Martha (nicknamed "Sunny," for her disposition) von Auersperg von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh fortune estimated at $35 million, went into an irreversible coma at Christmastime 1980 at the couple's oceanfront Newport home. An impassive Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But last April, after...
...cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug traffickers he was investigating. Said FBI Director William H. Webster: "The corrupting power of drug money is one of the obvious reasons why this No. 1 crime problem must be overcome. This sad case illustrates our relentless determination to police our own ranks...
...pattern of attack and counterattack was as relentless as it was bloody. Many in Israel consider the adventure in Lebanon a disastrous and costly mistake, and the national unity government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres is determined to get the I.D.F. out of Lebanon by summer. The I.D.F.'s orders, as Peres described them to the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee last week, are "to stay put not one minute longer than necessary," but he later added: "The terrorists will not dictate our steps...
...girl, girl rejects boy, girl and boy get thrown together on long trip, fall in love, break up, stumble back in love, kiss in moonlight, roll credits, sell cable rights, ad clicheum--stays mercifully irrelevant in what soon becomes a veritable impros comedy feast coated in Rob Reiner's relentless but unjaded satire...