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...crowd remained friendly. We talked about the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Patriots, the Bruins and then the Red Sox again. After a few hours in line, I didn't wan't to hear another Oil Can, Buckner or Stanley joke for the rest of my life...
Joining the fray from Iran, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to squelch one of Reagan's last chances to salvage something from the wreckage of his secret initiative to Tehran. Though Reagan announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with...
...fifth collection of short stories, Alice Munro, 55, continues to buck the genre's fashionable trend toward miniaturization and microplots. Her characters stubbornly refuse to trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
...best of us, crimebusting eventually wears our two heroes down so much that they are sent off on a mandatory vacation to Key West. (How this is possible on a detective's salary I can't tell you.) A week in the sun does wonders for their wan complexions and sex lives, and they skip back to the windy city with the idea that they should give up the disciplinary rat race and buy a bar down in the Keys with some money that Danny has recently come into thanks to a dearly departed aunt. They give their notice...
News Editor for This Issue: Kristen A. Goss '87 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Joseph F Kahn '87 Tommy J. Winslow '87 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Copy Editor: Joshua H. Henkin '87 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: Wan Joon Kim '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: Brent J. Martin...