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...series that pits New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) against a wily, chatty nut case with a fondness for TNT, the viewer simply suspends belief and coolly appraises the things that go boom. Say, wasn't that a nicely staged Wall Street explosion? My, that runaway subway train crashed onto the platform with a certain vigorous verismo. Oh, look-more actors playing dead people! So little wit is expended on the dialogue and so much on the imagination of disaster that you may as well sit back and enjoy the jolting ride...
...RUNAWAY TANK...
Novelists have not always been kind to runaway wives-Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, for example. But Tyler (whose novels include The Accidental Tourist and Morgan's Passing) again blesses her subject with a comic sensibility. The world of Ladder of Years is not one where acts produce serious moral consequences. Delia reads of her disappearance in the newspaper: "A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light-brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and weighs either 90 or 110 pounds." Her understandable response: "For heaven's sake, hadn't anyone in her family...
...things can get in the way of a 5000 Dow: runaway inflation for one, or at the other extreme, a severe recession. But if the analysts are right, we'll get to 5000 and then some, possibly within the year. Remember you read it here first, unless, of course, the analysts are wrong, in which case it was their mistake all along...
...Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is something of a runaway hog itself, a 10,000-acre comic novel set in what might almost be called Animal Farm State...