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...Take your anger and frustration with the President and vent them on me." (a) Vernon Jordan (b) James Carville (c) Al Gore (d) Linda Tripp...
...teeth. (No, not wood but porcelain). Step into his military field tent. (Pretty comfy.) Read two of his billets-doux to his beloved Martha. (He's no Robert James Waller.) The objects are all featured in a charming exhibition of artifacts that have never before left Washington's Mount Vernon residence and that go a long way toward humanizing the dour and frosty image of our Founding Father. The show, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's death, will make its way around the country for all of 1999. What the collection also reveals is that it was Washington...
...challenge [the Reagan Administration's] failure to exhibit a compassionate conservatism that adapts itself to the realities of a society..." --Vernon Jordan...
That is one of the questions that animates McEwan's eighth novel, Amsterdam (Doubleday; 193 pages; $21), the 1998 winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The composer in question is Clive Linley. He and his old friend Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, meet outside a London crematorium to say goodbye to Molly Lane, a glamorous and sexually generous woman dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved...
...Linley, his ethical high ground has been undermined by his confession to Halliday that he witnessed a potential rape and did nothing to stop it. Halliday: "There are certain things more important than symphonies. They're called people." Linley: "And are these people as important as circulation figures, Vernon?" After such harsh words, what forgiveness? Amsterdam provides a chilling answer...