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...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
...just any woman. According to Bloom, the God of these passages is "the West's major literary character," and the author's achievement is "comparable in imagination and rhetoric" only to that of Shakespeare and a few other writers. Bloom's case is laid out in The Book of J (Grove Weidenfeld; $21.95), on sale this week. "J" (for Jahwist or Yahwist) is the label scholars give to one of the hypothetical documents from which the Pentateuch was compiled and to its author or authors. Bloom's commentary appears with a new translation of J passages by David Rosenberg, former...
...behind the S&L disaster. It is a tale of interlocking relationships and sweet deals among S&Ls and their biggest customers, the possible impact of political contributions in delaying crackdowns by regulators, even the deceptive lure of junk bonds and their king, Michael Milken. It is not a case history of nice guys being caught innocently in an oil bust, as the defunct thrift's managers often claim. It is a study in greed, deceit and profiteering...
...years ago, when Marx was discussing this case with a former Dutch ballerina named Joyce Vanderveen, she challenged his theory as implausible, and the two of them decided to investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning...
...with President Bush this week -- the first such visit by a South African leader in 45 years -- is the latest measure of how far he has brought his pariah nation. Bush invited De Klerk as a gesture to encourage reform; De Klerk welcomed the chance to put his best case forward, knowing that sanctions will not be lifted until he finally meets the various congressional requirements for doing...