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...from the bus or plane. Says CBS News Vice President Joan Richman: "We have made some effort this year to report the campaign in a broader context and to lessen the sort of fragmentary coverage you get when your only reporting is from each individual candidate." CBS Correspondents Susan Spencer and Lem Tucker have been encouraged to step back from the Mondale and Glenn buses to work on "big picture" stories. Other analytical pieces on specific issues or themes have been done by each network's senior political reporters...
...Elizabeth Spencer...
...drawn across a map: at a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. At the scent of it, one woman feels her blood turn "as though the moon had swayed it." For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's elegantly written novel, her first in twelve years, the salt line divides past and present, memory and desire, placidity and jeopardy. Crossing it brings everyone into the swirling orbit of the book's protagonist, Arnie Carrington. Arnie, sixtyish, is a former professor of English at an upstate...
...notion"), only to be felled moments later by a mysterious snakebite. But such effects are fitted so neatly into place, their significance so finely chiseled, that one almost hears the click of the craftsman's tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...
...time, Spencer's novel slips out from under the reader as well, but until it does, the ride is beguiling...