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DIED. HENRY ROTH, 89, author of the acclaimed 1934 novel Call It Sleep, about a Jewish immigrant boy's life in a New York City slum; in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Despite his youthful success, he failed to publish another novel for 60 years...
Eight million dollars later, Evans has bought a new house in London and temporarily abandoned his film career. (Eric Roth, the screenwriter of Forrest Gump, will write the movie adaptation of his book.) Next year Evans will start a second novel, yet there's still a trace of resentment at the drubbing his first one took from reviewers. "The money," he says, "is blinding critics to the story." But apparently not readers...
Senator William Roth of Delaware is a creature of habit. He once took a liking to what his aides agreed was an ugly brown corduroy suit, so much so that he wore it even on the hottest summer days. His staff finally had enough of the monstrosity. An aide confronted him: "Senator, the bad news is there was a fire at your house." Before the horrified Roth could say a word, the aide continued, "The good news is it was confined to your closet." The brown suit disappeared. But he still sticks to an offbeat wardrobe that seems a fitting...
...Roth remains a creature of legislative habits too. As Bob Packwood's successor as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Roth is as hot to cut taxes as Packwood was cautious. Probably best known for his role in the deficit-ballooning, Kemp-Roth tax cut of 1981, which slashed rates 25% across the board, Roth says he is determined to stage an encore performance, planning to cut estate and capital-gains taxes and provide tax relief by expanding individual retirement accounts and creating a new tax credit for families with children. He also wants to overhaul the federal income...
Some fellow Senators, however, wonder whether Roth, 74, is up to the Finance Committee job. He has always been strong on big ideas but weak on the details. Roth goes nowhere without an aide conversant in the substance of even his pet issues. When visitors come to his office, he has demonstrated more interest in showing them the framed photos of his beloved Saint Bernards than in twisting arms and cutting deals. But Republicans must deliver on their promise to bring the budget into balance or face an even angrier electorate. And the Finance panel is where much of that...