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...attend the Big Party? Who will become the new head of the Windermans once the old man is gone? The answers are not as predictable as they appear, nor are the Windermans. Graves aptly demonstrates that the well- trodden ground of John O'Hara and J.P. Marquand can still sustain a surprising amount of plant and animal life...
...guerrilla force has ever toppled a Marxist regime, and the Nicaraguan contras are not about to become the first. But popular disaffection with the Sandinistas guarantees the contras a steady supply of new recruits, and renewed U.S. aid will give the rebels the means to sustain a long, fitful insurgency...
...year sales was 15,000. There are now more than 150,000 hard-cover copies in print. "It was a pleasure to be wrong," Turnbull admits. "The world now knows that we have maturity and competence." Adds Shoemaker: "Up till now we had yet to prove that we could sustain an effort and back up a best seller. Son of the Morning Star has shown that with a staff of only ten we can keep up with trade demand and follow through with a first-rate promotional effort...
...essay, "The Sunshine Girls: Renata Adler and Joan Didion," he points points to the simplistic, "unearned nibilism" these authors have adopted from the tradition of modernism Elsewhere the castigates those writers who reduce affairs of the heart to a affairs of the glands. Epstein wants literatures sustain man and make him "better." Unfortunately, the feminists and leftists Epstein attacks claim that the amelioration and richness of life lie within the conflicts of politics and gender. Quickly and predictably, the argument turns from literature to philosophy and politics...
Yesterday's phenom, today's ho-hum. A few years ago, Richard Pryor was the comic everyman of movies and the top black box-office draw. But the pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...