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...Sometimes Spencer's name is even mentioned in the same critical breath with Henry James. The comparisons are flattering, but to be measured against some of the best usually means never measuring up. Cold comfort then for Spencer, especially since so many writers today are overpraised on a narrower scale of accomplishment...
Working on a grander scale, according to federal indictments, were the 111 defendants who have been charged with floating more than $500 million in bogus loans for a partly completed condominium development ten miles northeast of Dallas, alongside Interstate 30. One prominent S and L owner named in the case was Welba Lee Keetch, 52, a 300-lb. Texan known as Bubba. Authorities say Keetch and two colleagues kept $12.9 million from loans made by First Savings and Loan Association of Burkburnett, which Keetch controlled...
Mike McDonough, a Lantana free-lancer, counters by recalling the night he watched an intrepid Brit scale the facade of a hotel in Freeport, the Bahamas, to bang on Howard Hughes' window. "That is the closest anyone ever came ((to Hughes))," he claims proudly. Ace Tab Photog Jimmy Leggett, a wiry Scot, remembers a "scheme to drill a hole down into Hughes' coffin to get a picture of his face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past...
...other end of the scale of literary sobriety is Donald E. Westlake's sprightly Trust Me on This (Mysterious Press; 293 pages; $16.95), which satirizes the seemingly unsatirizable. After faltering in recent years, Westlake recoups in perhaps the most beguiling beheading of journalists since Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. The targets are the tabloid weeklies that feature UFO sightings, no-dieting diets and a "body in a box," that is, surreptitious photos of a dead celebrity in his casket. Rather than mock the already preposterous, Westlake explores the mentality that capable, rational people would need in order to crank out such...
Velayati said the Security Council is obliged to punish Iraq after reading a U.N. experts' report which concludes that Iraq made frequent and large-scale use of outlawed chemical weapons...