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...productive and competitive economy. "We're honing down and becoming more efficient," Norwood says. "In some ways, that is good for us. But it's a painful process. You can't get anywhere without economic expansion, and you can't have growth without creating more jobs. It's a vicious cycle." For the moment, at least, Americans may have little choice but to hope that the pain they endure today will produce some gain tomorrow, or perhaps the day after...
...GERALD'S GAME (Viking; $23.50) his 27th novel. The game begins on an average day in an airy summer house in Maine. Jessie Burlingame agrees to let her husband Gerald try a little bedtime bondage, but somewhere along the line he gets nasty -- and so does she, dispensing a vicious kick that leads to a fatal heart attack. Here lies Gerald, and so does Jessie, cuffed to the bedstead as a mad dog scratches at the door. Meanwhile, her mind and memory play hideous tricks, as the ghosts of her sexually abused childhood rise up to terrorize her. This...
...characters. "The characters are all screwed up," Burton notes. "I find that much more interesting." Returns tops the first movie's shrill wrestling match between Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) with a funnier, more lithe and daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they saw he had flippers for hands. Now he wants to be loved and, even more, elected -- mayor of Gotham City. In DeVito's ripe performance, Penguin is a creature of Dickensian rhetoric, proportions and comic...
...year of vicious ethnic bloodletting has ensued. Now most of the world has decided that the prime cause of the fighting is the nationalist fervor of Serbia. Yes, the war is a more complicated eruption of ancient religious, ethnic and territorial hatreds, but it is Serbia's determination to bite off parts of the other republics peopled by Serbs that keeps the war going. And the U.S., the 12-nation European Community, the 52-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.) and the United Nations have let it roll on unchecked while dithering helplessly about what, if anything...
Over the years, many controversial arguments we have disagreed with have been made on these pages. But we're not talking about a controversial argument based on questionable facts in this case. We're talking about vicious propaganda based on utter bullshit that has been discredited time and again...