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...Franco's condition; finally, the dictator's doctor announced that "in the course of an attack of influenza" he had "suffered an acute coronary crisis." Hoping to convince the public that Franco was indeed "recovering satisfactorily," as the bulletin claimed, the palace began issuing a steady stream of suspiciously cheerful news items reporting that Franco had "walked through his rooms," watched a film and talked animatedly with his family. It was even announced that he intended to preside over last Friday's regular Cabinet meeting...
MICHAELS'S STYLE and range partially conceal this tension. The stories run from a page to thirty, at one point in stream-of-consciousness imitation of a bourgeois psychotic and at another, in the ostensibly reasonable tones of a well-read intellectual. Humor is consistently sardonic: clever when discussing the posturing of a talentless college professor in his quest to publish his book and vindictive when describing a dinner of the haute bourgeoisie ("Nothing tasted. From course to course I'd swallowed textures, not tastes, like a cat gobbling kill...
...country's standard, liberal newspapers. Another handful of "your basic liberal magazines"--The Progressive, Nation, New Republic, Ramparts, The New Yorker--were keeping their eyes, or at least those of their free-lance stringers, on what was going on in the mountain hollows that line the path of a stream called Clover Fork in Eastern Kentucky...
Visiting friends in Hawaii, the widow of a second American writer, Mary Hemingway, dropped by to view the filming of Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway's semiautobiographical novel published after his death. She gave sound approval to Actor George C. Scott, who plays the hero Thomas Hudson...
...about a stream of consciousness column this morning? They're easy to write and not too taxing to read (for those in a hurry...