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...topic has come to preoccupy residents of two undergraduate Houses, and understandably so In a university where every structure larger than a lunch-tray has a historic name attached to it, residents of North and South Houses have no such heritage in which to steep themselves; in recent weeks they have begun to speak out. "They aren't names--they're points on a compass," North House Master J. Woodland Hastings has bemoaned...
...world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi, and the press showed its usual gullibility about the steep differences between publicity price, asking price and real discounted price. This classic hype was carried out, against the backdrop of a teetering art market, on a scale not seen since the promotion of Bernard Buffet in Paris at about the time Schnabel was born...
This is the direction of George Mills, Elkin's longest, most complex novel. The burdens of the author's previous fictions are given full weight. The narrative path is steep, circuitous and mined with disease and humiliations. The voices of third and first persons mingle, and time runs in either direction. In the present, a terminal patient named Judith Glazer beleaguers family and friends with hostile honesty and acrid humor: "Neither will I be wired to any of those medical busy-boxes to extend for one damned minute what only a fool would call my life. If Jesus...
That busload of tourists has not yet pulled up in front of his pillared portico and berry-blue front door with a painted American eagle plaque hanging above it. The vehicle is only momentarily stalled, though, just below the steep incline of road that rises through Updike's nine acres. It will arrive, some time soon, just as surely as scholars, journalists, graduate students and the idly curious have been tracking down Updike's past for years. They make pilgrimages to Shillington, Pa., where the author was born and spent his first 13 years. They then proceed...
...civilization, in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, a mile-long clearing has been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp or something else should snap. Although...