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With his latest venture into fact crime, Cruel Doubt (Simon & Schuster; 460 pages; $25), McGinniss has swung to the opposite pole. Eleven months after Malcolm's devastating piece, he began to write the story of Bonnie Von Stein, a North Carolina woman who was unquestionably a victim rather than a villain. Her husband was bludgeoned and stabbed to death beside her as they lay in bed at home; she too was battered and nearly died. Despite her injuries, she was unjustly treated as a suspect for many months, as was her daughter. She suffered a mother's worst nightmare when...
...agitations grow and Ben becomes more and more indecisive until, like Hamlet, he begins having conversations with his late father. Fortunately, they are witty exchanges by two convincing characters. Then again, in The Best Revenge (Random House; 240 pages; $20) everyone is convincing. Along with Tennessee Williams, novelist Sol Stein was a member of the Playwrights Unit at the Actors Studio. His portrait of backstage back stabbing is as uncomfortable as it is amusing, but Stein obviously knows what he is writhing about...
...Many of those who were involved in ground combat or aerial raids will reel from the shock of having killed people. Such a reaction typically takes about six months to set in. But, advises John Stein, deputy director of the Washington-based National Organization for Victim Assistance, "for some, the dichotomy between horrific memories and the sense of triumph will strike them as being psychologically intolerable right from...
...Introduction to Radcliffe Career Services"--Phyllis Stein, director. Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard, 5:30 p.m. Admission Free...
...Jewish homosexual Jacob: it was the vein of mystical imagery, the fascination with arcana, the tarot and the figure of the artist as Hermes Trismegistus, that pervades the Blue Period and culminates in his first masterpiece, La Vie, 1903. Likewise, Richardson is very shrewd about Picasso's relations with Stein, pointing out how her egotism was so resistant to his that she became one of his early real-life icons: her bulky presence, Richardson speculates, fused with childhood memories of his mother, led to the unnaturally massive torsos of his postwar classical nudes...