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...have spent all the time since the decision occurred doing a lot of re-evaluating, and planning what should be done next. There's been some unhappy people," says Brandenburg. "Our hope is that there's as strong a program emerging from the ashes, but it was a pretty rude awakening...
...probably never happened before: two novels by the same author, separated by 60 years and with no book of fiction in between. The appearance of Henry Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream (St. Martin's; 290 pages; $23) not only breaks an epochal case of writer's block; it comes with a subtitle -- Volume I, A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park -- and the astonishing dust-jacket information that this is only the first of six new novels that Roth, now 87, has completed. What he has apparently done, late in life, is tell the story...
Those who wondered not only whether but how Roth would resolve his dilemma now have at least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he and his parents have moved from the Lower East Side to an apartment in Harlem, up to age 14. It also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel...
...wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit America's Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard Klayderman...
Immediately after last week's debate, Perot looked tired and grumpy. Appearing before 350 supporters at a Washington hotel, he groused that "the Vice President of the United States had to be trained all weekend to be arrogant, condescending and rude." But soon his natural ebullience kicked in, and he began effusing once more about '94. "We're just warming up!" he cried happily. "In every congressional district in the country, there are huge armies of people out there determined to rebuild the country, balance the budget, pay down the debt...