Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual bland stuff, enabling one to drink many cups. Water could be replenished faster, although this is not a kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
...response, Zuckerman takes a dim view of such passages: "Look, anything is better than My Ex-Wife the Bitch -- I just cannot read that stuff." Other complaints pour forth: "This manuscript is steeped in the nice-guy side . . . Where's the anger . . . And where's the hubris, by the way?" The answer, of course, is that they are all here, if not conveyed by Roth directly then underlined afterward by his fictional counterpart. Despite its sincere attempt to set the record straight, The Facts inevitably shades into fiction. Roth is worth reading not for what happened...
...lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In Condon's mad early novels -- The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate -- marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there...
...women from the G.D.R. have not lost their stuff -- they should go home with a sizable medal count -- but the rest of the world just seems to be swimming faster these days. Challenges will come from China, Italy and Rumania as well as from old nemeses like Canada, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Securities and Exchange Act," said Edward Brodsky, a Wall Street lawyer and former U.S. Attorney. Potentially the most devastating charge was the accusation that Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. investment firm (1987 revenues: $3.2 billion), had cheated some of its important customers. Said Brodsky: "That is raw stuff...