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Dylan Thomas lived 13 days past his 39th birthday and has been dead now for nearly 33 years. Yet the story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements...
...things he shouldn't, and that distinct possibility must not be ignored. In Meese's case, it hasn't been: he faced possibly the most exhaustive investigation and confirmation process since the Nixon era when the President nominated him to be Attorney General. This latest episode of the Meese saga at Harvard is only part of the American tradition of public accountability...
...called Fatso by his crew mates, from those of Garcia Marquez. When the simple sailor remarks upon his "indefatigable desire to live," the presence of the aspiring author who had read his Faulkner and Hemingway seems self-evident. But these literary touches only add zest to an already astounding saga. Those who care about the career of Garcia Marquez will find much of interest here. And so will readers who want to know how it feels to be at the mercy of nature...
...bomb aboard Flight 840 took only four lives, far fewer than the 166 people who died two days earlier when a Mexican jetliner crashed into a mountainside in central Mexico, but it was one of the most chilling episodes in the generation-old saga of airborne terrorism. The bombing demonstrated that neither governments nor airlines have yet found the means to make air travelers safe from terrorist attacks...
Steven Spielberg's controversial The Color Purple, which had received eleven nominations--the same number as Out of Africa--won no awards at all. Based on Alice Walker's novel, Purple is a saga about rural Southern black women in the first decades of the century. Some blacks claimed that it insulted black men by depicting them as child abusers and wife beaters; others defended the film as a breakthrough for blacks in Hollywood. The argument was complicated when Spielberg failed to gain a nomination as Best Director--a sign, said his friends, that the industry establishment envied his commercial...