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Part Three of Sleepless Nights is a dusky, beautiful, 20-page evocation of early '40s New York and Billie Holiday: "The creamy lips, the oily eyelids, the violent perfume--and in her voice the tropical l's and r's. Her presence, her singing created a large, swelling anxiety. Long red fingernails and the sound of electrified guitars. Here was a woman who had never been a Christian." So desperately important to a woman who was trying to forget that...
...fragile temerity to howl "Canadians, do not vomit on me!" More often she is sincere, direct, touching, with only a trace of the sentimentality of the German romantics she quotes so often. Evil is not in her world, or in men, but in their confluence; the pain and sleepless nights are not in women, or in men, but in their great need for each other. The waltz, she cautions us, is not as easy as it looks, and clumsiness is painful. But to dance like bears, off the beat, around and around--the necessary dance of men and women...
...begun shipping beer in bulk to Anheuser-Busch, which is bottling it for test marketing in Boston, Hartford, and Atlanta. If the tests prove promising, the beer will go into national distribution. For at least some German brewers, that should help reduce tension and cut down on those sleepless nights...
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Good as Gold, Joseph Heller SS-GB, Len Deighton The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff The Flounder, Günter Grass
...Sleepless Nights may be short on liveliness but it is long on artfulness: "Everyone dreams of a servant when the ego is bruised . . . Envy is not the vice of the frozen intellectual. How can it seize the mind when boredom arrives before...