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...eighth novel, Mr. Vertigo (Viking; 293 pages; $21.95), Auster again dips into the collective memory bank, offering a hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than...
...lobster with a $238-a-bottle champagne in five-star hotels. A sense of bewilderment plagues Moscow's residents as they attempt to sort out the conflicting claims of their half-remembered, precommunist culture from the hedonistic and corrupting pull of the West. It is the sort of spiritual vertigo that accompanies economic and cultural free fall, and it has left many ordinary Muscovites with an uneasy feeling of limbo...
Stallone trained for the film on a 30-ft. concrete wall built next to the tennis court at his Beverly Hills home. Despite vertigo, he was drawn into the sport's intoxicating lure: in one shot he was doing upside-down situps, hanging from a chopper, when a crew member noticed that he had no safety belt. Stallone was bothered most by scenes filmed on a seven-story indoor wall at Rome's Cinecitta studios. "That was a lot scarier than the Alps," he says. "There's something about knowing that the floor is there and you could go splat...
...debacle broke new ground in the erosion of Clinton's popularity. He suffered simultaneous public mockery of both his competence (one headline writer dubbed him "Bumblin' Bill") and his conviction ("President Jell- O"). His downward spiral in popularity and his shift in positions are creating a sense of public vertigo. More than ever, Americans regard their new President with two nagging questions: Is he up to the job? and What does he stand for? Clinton must know that if he does not answer those questions soon, he may never be able to. One longtime friend who spoke with the President...
MARK O'DONNELL'S COLLECTION OF COMIC short stories, VERTIGO PARK AND OTHER TALL TALES (Knopf; $18), is like a literary version of Saturday Night Live -- a boatload of strained laughs mixed with a few great jokes that keep the whole thing afloat. Bright spots: "She didn't realize deliberate perkiness offended, the way the smell of ammonia becomes associated with the odors it's supposed to remove," and "Necessity is the mother of affection," and "Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?" There are pieces about Samuel Beckett, obsessed fans...