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Literary Heroes Talk about twisted priorities! you feature the obituary and picture of John Hughes, director of forgettable, cotton-candy movies, and yet give Budd Schulberg, an important literary figure, a scant few lines [Aug. 24]. It makes me wonder if your arts editors are about 14 years old. Apart from his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, Schulberg was around in an important era of major literary figures and was a colleague of F. Scott Fitzgerald on movie scripts about which he wrote a novel, The Disenchanted. Trevor Hoyle, NEWHEY, ENGLAND...
Some industry experts now wonder if the Hershey Trust will rethink its stand in light of the Kraft bid. After all, if Kraft ups its ante and succeeds in acquiring Cadbury, it would create a combined company that would rival Mars in size and reduce Hershey to a distant fourth in the confectionary market with only a 4% stake, estimates Stifel Nicolaus analyst Christopher Growe...
...political context contained therein. But Hoffmann’s narrative looks so thoughtfully inward that it seems unjust to dilute the quality of this introspection with politics. Hoffmann creates an impressionistic, hypnotic representation of the content of a human life. His account is marked by a powerful sense of wonder at his surrounding planet, at the karmic electricity that seems to flow through it and, less overtly, at his own capacity for growth. Though humorous and often irreverent, this curious cocktail of recollections is a penetrating piece of wisdom. He takes the opportunity to show the reader something true, even...
...Also, he was Hawaiian and grew up in Hawaii. He was a big influence on me.I look back to things that are really important to me—where I grew up and seeing buildings that were ruined. I would drive through the city, looking at abandoned mansions, and wonder why they were like that or who lived there. And so, originally my work had to do with lamentations of things that were gone—erasures of places.I also had a big epiphany about this whole idea of Detroit as utopia. My work has a lot to do with...
...There's been some controversy around that. Some Republicans have objected to that. Some of the 9/11 groups have. I just wonder whether you would speak to - kind of enunciate what that day really means now, going forward, in your view. The President: I wasn't aware there was a controversy, so you just reported - I guess there's always a controversy somewhere. I think that last year at 9/11-...