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HOSPITALIZED. Françoise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogotá, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema and cardiac weakness brought on by the altitude; she was flown home to France and remains under sedation in improving condition...
...present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance. By the customary criteria applied to genre fiction--the number of active practitioners whose works have graduated to mainstream best-seller lists or to critical appraisal as "serious" literature--the mystery can offer only Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald and perhaps Julian Symons. Dozens of purported successors to Christie have been proclaimed, largely on the basis of gender, but none has sustained anything like her productivity or cunning. Every publishing season brings a promising debut, but the vast majority of these writers never again produce a book with the freshness...
...makes a daring decision. Crouched in the cockpit of his spaceship, the hero of the Star Wars saga switches off a computer scanner and aims the craft's laser guns himself. Goof-off time in the boardroom? In fact, that dramatic scene is from a videocassette of the best seller Megatrends, one of a growing number of popular books being used in taped form in management-training programs. The next face on the screen belongs not to Darth Vader but to Author John Naisbitt, who explains the lesson of the space segment: executives must use their instincts to harness technology...
...will not be published there. The first printing of 25,000 copies of the $15.95 book was sold out in a day, and another 25,000 have been ordered, although A Time for Peace is not likely to displace Elvis and Me from the top of the U.S. best-seller lists. Gorbachev, who will receive the standard 15% royalty fee, is giving his income from the book to Soviet Life, an English-language magazine that Moscow publishes...
...Whether they're consumers or producers, shareholders or voters, laborers or arts mavens, citizens of the world or school children, Australians can feel the dragon's heat. China is at once an old friend, a potential foe, a buyer, a seller, an alien nation and a muse. It's the face and spirit of globalization: Australia's distant factory floor and an endless market for the country's minerals, gas, technology and brain power. China's soft power is seeping into Australia's cities, suburbs and remote corners. It's changed the nation, and continues to change...