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...Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero's fleshy predicament to feel more involved than exasperated? Distant enough to remember that in matters of sex, all positions are ridiculous...
...heave and toss, darkening the city under a cloud of dust raised from collapsing buildings. Church bells clanged by themselves, until they fell out of their towers. The tremors could be felt as far away as Scotland. Soon the fires broke out. Some flames were doused by the tidal wave, which reared 30 ft. high and crashed to the shore, drowning survivors who had not been crushed or burned. Once the water receded the looters came, including the inmates and galley slaves of the local prisons, plundering anything worth saving and killing anyone who interfered. "What a wretched gamble...
...musical ever had its songs removed after the picture was shot? The surgery threatened to upset the delicate texture of the story, the balance of personalities, that Brooks always seeks. "The ripple effect drove me crazy," he says. "You spit in the water and cause a tidal wave." And few films have been so avidly, publicly scrutinized while its director was trying to fix things. "It's antithetical to everything you need to do your job," Brooks says. "There's a time when you gotta close the door...
Americans have had the fortune of riding the health-care technology tidal wave for many years now. Eighty-five percent of the U.S. population--those Americans who have health care coverage--can take advantage of the most advanced techniques modern science has to offer...
Japan's most devastating earthquake in 45 years, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroyed villages and set fires across a small island near Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. At least 166 people were killed -- most by the 10-ft.-to-30-ft. tidal waves, or tsunamis, that swept victims into the ocean and tossed boats onto the shore...