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Less than four years ago, the publishing world gasped at the $5 million advance that William Morrow and Avon Books paid for hard-cover and soft-cover rights to James Clavell's Whirlwind. That record-breaking sum has since been equaled or topped repeatedly. Horror writer Stephen King was reportedly promised between $30 million and $40 million for his next four thrillers, to be published by Viking Penguin and New American Library. Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books shelled out $10.1 million for the next five novels from suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark. Warner Books paid Southern historical novelist Alexandra Ripley...
...Three hundred forty-nine days! Three hundred forty-nine days!" she screams. "Bite on your hat, anything to keep from sobbing!" Few in the audience at Moscow's Sovremennik Theater stifle the emotion inspired by such searing scenes from Eugenia Ginzburg's memoirs of the Gulag, Journey into the Whirlwind. An innocent victim of the Stalinist purges, the heroine endures humiliating interrogations, strip searches and endless nights during which she covers her ears to block out the cries of the tortured. In a final, chilling tableau, she even welcomes assignment to the labor camps as a liberation. Viewers leave speaking...
...welcomed after decades of conformity. "We need time to get over our feeling of shock and process all this new information," says Okudzhava. "The masterpieces will come later. Now we must editorialize, speak out, make our confession and repent." And perhaps weep, like the audiences at Journey into the Whirlwind...
...several speeches a week, and sometimes several a day, on subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant posts...
...whirlwind day of charges and countercharges between two powerful Democrats on Beacon Hill began with a morning news conference in Shannon's office. Using unusually blunt and harsh language, a visibly angry Shannon said "people in [Keverian's] office...at various points made it difficult" for his investigators to proceed...