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...been told numerous times. He began appearing, scarcely disguised, as a character in novels before he had written anything substantial himself, and the passions aroused by his dizzying ascent and precipitous collapse have stirred memoirists and biographers ever since. Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde will not be the last word on this subject, but it is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account. Ellmann, who died seven months ago of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), was the author of the landmark literary biography James Joyce (1959). In his numerous books and essays he displayed...
...once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only add to the whispered accusations that Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev, 55, is guilty of conduct unbecoming a Soviet wife. In a land where women have full equality under the law but where a husband has the last word, Raisa has become a widely respected but occasionally resented figure. To a Westerner, that attitude is hard to understand. So what if Raisa dresses stylishly, accompanies her husband on official travels in the Soviet Union and abroad and even makes some appearances on her own? So what if she is involved...
Adrian Cronauer is a military misfit. As protagonist of the first major service comedy about Viet Nam -- and what sometimes seems to be the last, dead-on surreal word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
...broadcasts glum little ads urging G.I.s to use egg timers when they call long distance and to watch for red-tag sales at the PX. "We used to say, 'Come to Europe and broaden your horizons,' " says Major Dennis Pinkham, a public-affairs officer at European Command. "Now that word is out that things are tough, that's kind of a bitter pill to swallow." With many economists predicting even harder times ahead for the shrunken dollar, the pill is most easily washed down with cut-rate beer in the barracks...
This is probably the reason that Levi seldom uses the word Holocaust, a term that has come to invite an automatic and generalized response at the expense of the particular. Levi provides the wire, barking guards, sadistic Kapos and the ovens, which, we learn with devastating offhandedness, were manufactured by Topf of Wiesbaden, a company that went on to produce crematoria until 1975. There are also the moral zombies who planned and managed the Lagers (camps), and the scientists who acted in the name of higher learning. Of Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian physician and chief doctor of the Birkenau...