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...home and car and wife and children, of his solid bourgeois existence. Sneeringly, but also wistfully. Lee refers to "houses like they have in magazines. You know, with blondes moving in and out of rooms. "Lee's ambivalence toward security and society crystallizes when Austin invites a movie producer. Saul Kimmer (Richard Grusin), to the house to talk business. Scoffing openly at Kimmer's lifestyle. Lee the dirty, ill-spoken, scowling failure babbles with gleeful sarcasm about his imaginary residence in Palm Springs, his love of gold, his familiarity with Hollywood's Bob Hope Drive. But when Kimmer indicates interest...
Kollek's friends have ranged from Anwar Sadat, who called him "the most famous mayor in the world," to Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich. Another friend is Saul Bellow, who has provided a vivid portrait: "Kollek is ponderous but moves quickly-a furiously active man. His is a hurtling, not a philosophical soul. His face does not rest passively on its jowls ... His reddish hair falls forward when he goes into action... Everyone serves his ends, and no one seems harmed by such serving...
...Markowitz, who has been using such plates for seven years, says, "I've seen drastically defective palates fill in by 70% to 80% in ten months." Perhaps as a result, children fitted with the gadget seem to develop clearer speech than most cleft-palate youngsters. Says Plastic Surgeon Saul Hoffman, director of the Cleft Palate Center at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital: "We're all in favor of it. The prosthesis seems to narrow the opening and make surgery easier. We think it has something to do with keeping the tongue out of the opening...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
...Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday that "it would be hard to stop the thefts entirely" at the various athletic facilities...