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...political and nuclear agreements." If that is perhaps too hopeful, the pleasure and enrichment for American and Soviet audiences is enough in itself. And the exchanges should help to make the two superpowers less disagreeable when they choose to disagree. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and William Stewart/Washington...
...River town of Beacon, N.Y., does not want muddy foreigners on its streets. Later Morrisons dig water tunnels in the Bronx. Owney's granduncle Jack stays above ground to work as a messenger for an influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually lightens the cash envelope, and when his boss dies, Morrison and his sister-in-law steal a Yeats manuscript from the apartment, bypassing a stack of paintings by Renoir...
...hailed as painstaking artists; prolific ones are dismissed as hacks, particularly if they work within the confines of the thriller, the sci-fi adventure, the western or the like. There are very few exceptions: Georges Simenon and Isaac Asimov have each written more than 300 well-received volumes, and William F. Buckley Jr. gets good reviews for spy novels that he claims to churn out in as few as 150 hours per caper...
...that moment his fantasy world is transferred to the mind of one previously condescending friend. Or, as Rendell puts it in the story's poignant final lines, which perhaps should be read as her own cri de coeur, "He reached his audience, he reached his audience at last." --By William A. Henry...
...artist, the photograph of the image on a rusty soybean-oil storage tank in Ohio could be taken to represent a hooded hangman, a Ku Klux Klan member or even a Russian woman in a babushka. When things as ridiculous as this make news, we become a silly society. William David Perkins Ann Arbor, Mich...