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...lets his light touch get our of hand, and he keeps a firm grip on even the most elusive conversation (Shenker's word games tend to be infectious). Suiting his style to subject, he rises to the sublimity of Vladimir Nabokov ("Q. What struggles these days for pride of trace in your mind?"), and caters to the acidity of Gore Vidal ("Have you read any bad books lately?"). Mark Van Doren's answers "seemed to demand the topography of poetry," and so Shenker has reproduced them in verse form. Only once, in an interview with Eugene Ionesco, does he seem...
...backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey's anticipated departure. At the same time, Cook said, he mentioned to Stans that as part of the investigation into Vesco's affairs, the SEC was trying to trace what had happened to $250,000 that seemed to have disappeared. Cook testified that he told Stans that he understood Vesco may have given $50,000 to the Nixon re-election campaign...
...Venezuelan government's insistence that the fight be televised on home screens, it was no surprise that the multimillion-dollar sports palace El Poliedro was only half full by fight time. Nor should it have really been a surprise when Foreman walked in without the slightest trace of a limp. (He attributed his recovery to prayer.) Score Round 1 in the psychological fight to Foreman. Norton seemed to sense that he had been outmaneuvered. As Rondeau briefed the fighters at mid-ring, Norton carefully avoided Foreman's menacing glare by staring at the canvas...
...committees vote on varying packages of spending plans with insufficient knowledge of how their votes will affect total federal expenditures and the size of the budget deficit. A bill expected to win final congressional approval in a few weeks would create a Congressional Office of the Budget that would trace all appropriations as they move through the legislative process and add up the totals. That way Congressmen would get an overall view of how much is to be spent and where the money is coming from well before the final budget votes. The bill should pass and become...
...Blotner thinks that any of these novels is better than another, he does not let on. (His approach is to trace the stages of writing and then, after publication, quote some reviews...