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Though the names of the novel's characters have the ring of Restoration comedy, Money owes much of its drive to contemporary American fiction. Unlike most British novelists, Amis projects a large and raucous vision. He seems to have learned his heightened personal voice from Saul Bellow, the humorous uses of inverted logic from Joseph Heller and his naughty bits from Philip Roth. In fact, Self can be just as shocking and funny as Alexander Portnoy, an accomplishment not likely to go unnoticed. Amis' new novel should have feminists calling for blood and entertainment packagers trying to raise the ghost...
...Greenmailer. One of Icahn's partners in the Phillips struggle is Saul Steinberg, 45, an expert in the fine art of greenmail. In that corporate maneuver, an investor buys up a large block of stock in a company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm's management will become frightened and buy the shares back at a higher price than the stockholders can get, just to get rid of the raider. Last summer, in such a ploy, Steinberg bought 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions. After a long battle with Disney management, he sold the stock...
...shares at a premium. Pickens denies being a greenmailer, saying that he made a sincere bid to take over Phillips and that all company shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought 12% of the stock of Walt Disney Productions and then sold it to the company for a profit of $32 million...
...WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AND OTHER STORIES by Saul Bellow. A vibrant cast of big shots and shlemiels stumble painfully and comically through the Nobel laureate's latest collection of short and long stories...
Usually, though, running a university is not the kind of job anyone keeps for more than about a decade. "I think the average lifetime of a university president is about five years," says Brandeis chemistry professor Saul G. Cohen, one of 30 members of Harvard's Board of Overseers, which would give routine approval to the selection of any Bok replacement. "It's a pretty terrible job, although I think Harvard is probably one of the more pleasant places...