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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf: $18.95). A spurned suitor endures 50 years of solitude to win his woman, in the Nobel laureate's sprawling, exuberant fable...
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf; $18.95). A spurned suitor endures 50 years of solitude to win the woman he loves, in the Nobel laureate's sprawling, exuberant fable...
...unlikely target. The Richmond pharmaceutical firm has been bogged down in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since 1985, and faces billions of dollars in claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris) made offers for Robins. As the bids proliferated, a federal bankruptcy judge gave Robins...
...Mastroianni attained Italian film stardom as the wistful suitor in Visconti's White Nights, and in 1959 Fellini made him an international icon by casting him in La Dolce Vita. Mastroianni compares these two men, who were crucial to his career: "Visconti was the teacher. Severe, but we like him. Fellini is your benchmate, the one you sit next to and make jokes. With Fellini, always we make it a joke. The more serious the film, the more we laugh. We don't say, 'Oh, maestro, how beautiful is this thing you are creating!' We think this...
Part of the fun comes from the band's off-the-wall character. Dash Rip Rock is named for Ellie Mae's suitor on "The Beverly Hillbillies." Its song-writers, guitarist Bill Davis and drummer Fred LeBlanc, compose love ballads, songs of graveyards and whiskey, and ominous-sounding instrumentals with equal facility. Their music mixes seemingly incompatible styles: Louisiana country music, rockabilly, and thrash-punk...