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Finding the Center moves away from the invective of the Muslim book and restores to his nonfiction the considerable sympathy and understanding for characters that Naipaul has shown in his ten novels. Indeed, Naipaul calls the two prose works that make up this new vol ume "personal narrative pieces" rather than essays, and the term seems correct. His emphasis in both falls not on report age but on the process of shaping experiences into a coherent story, of creating a tale, in essence, in order to get at a truth...
...long way. I'm sure he looked bad, but at no point was he anywhere close to being in extremis. " As to the blood loss, O'Leary agrees it was large (almost four quarts) but says the rate of loss is more important than the vol ume. Reagan's blood loss was steady, not gushing, and doctors had no trouble in compensating with transfusions. The ma jority of gunshot victims come into a hos pital much worse off, O'Leary says. In fact, he contends that the President would probably have been all right even...
...Lessing's admiration for Canopus of ten nudges her from telling into preaching. In fiction, the knowledge that one character has all the answers works against suspense. The realization that those answers are not forthcoming puts great strains on patience. But another vol ume is reportedly on the way, and others are likely to follow. The Sirian Experiments may be a small misstep on a long journey. To be continued...
...General Motors still leads in vol ume, and the 2,070,270 units sold between Jan. 1 and June 20 were only 200,000 behind the frenetic pace of 1965. Buick (up 21.3% over 1967) and Oldsmobile (up 14.4%) were the biggest gainers. At the Chevrolet division, the Chevy II, a model that falls somewhere between the compact and the intermediate, had sales of nearly 90,000 units, up 45% from last year. Pontiac sales (up 7.3%) are once again being led by the intermediate Tempest...
...rather enjoyable third at that-men and women are surprisingly stodgy about their beds. Their resistance to change in sleeping styles has long been the despair of the bed business; despite much smart and sexy advertising, there has been little growth in unit sales or dollar vol ume for the past decade. But there was rejoicing last week at the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers' convention in Chicago. A bed trend is under way-toward sleeping...