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DIVIDED INTO chapters on individual "writers," including excerpts from their work, the book parodies everyone from Helen of Troy to Helen Gurley Brown to Anais Nin (who becomes "Anais Zit"), spearing Truman Capote and Norman Mailer '43 along the way. But the barbs aren't just aimed at writers; writers are the convenient vehicle to get to the heart of society itself--and in particular men and women and sex. After all, two of the authors say, "the main motivating force in everyone's life is sex." But about politics--don't satirists have to have politics? Consider, however, these...
...your turn to forget him on Nov. 6." At Texas Southern University in Houston, black students applauded long and loud when Mondale criticized Reagan's frequent references to revered Democrats. "But they have to be dead," Mondale noted. "It's got to be Roosevelt or Truman or Kennedy. They're even picking my old friend Humphrey; he's turning over in his grave. Why don't they leave our own heroes alone and honor their own-Hoover and Nixon and Agnew...
DIED. Ellsworth Bunker, 90, patrician, unflappable diplomat under seven Presidents, who epitomized the old-school foreign service officer during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet...
Clements wasn't ornery when we talked in his office. He looked like a scholar surrounded by his books, like a scholar who had known action somewhere; a Harry Truman or John Wooden. "Free spirit, high energy, risk taking, the strength of one's convictions-that's what Dallas is all about," said Clements. "All these marvelous buildings." He gestured toward downtown. "These buildings only exist because of entrepreneurs...
...DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms...