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Most disarming self-critique by the author of a runaway best seller: "Margaret Mitchell is a better writer. But she's dead...
...efforts to unify economic policy are in a desperate race with the forces of hunger, cold and scarcity. So far, scarcity is winning. Severe shortages of fuel closed half the country's airports and halted domestic flights. Banks were running out of hard currency as citizens struggled with a runaway ruble. Factories called stoppages, services inexplicably ceased. Food was critically short in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ukraine and Belorussia got Yeltsin to postpone until Jan. 2 a decree freeing many Russian prices, which was supposed to take effect Monday. The delay only touched off a new binge of panic buying...
...RUNAWAY SOUL by Harold Brodkey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30). Perhaps the most anticipated first novel in history, the volatile short-story writer's magnum opus -- nearly 30 years in the making -- is at times precious, incoherent and self-indulgent...
SOLUTION: To slow its runaway growth, return the program to its original goal: taking care of people who need financial help. People who can afford to pay more for their own health care should do so. In addition, subsidies should be more carefully rationed when it comes to extremely complex and costly medical procedures for very old patients. "Most of the elderly would probably accept that idea," says Dr. Perry Stafford, a surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "It is usually their families who have this tenacious hold on anything that will prolong life. It is hard for people...
Only the work would tell, and that was invisible. Until this month. At the age of 61, Brodkey has at last released his magnum opus, The Runaway Soul. Physically, it is the long-awaited Big Book. Whether The Runaway Soul deserves 835 pages and a price tag of $30 is another matter. For if this is not the Emperor's New Novel, neither is it Remembrance of Things Past...