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Imperials are not the only ones to offer beguiling short stories this season. The long-neglected art of yarn spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways...
...Bilbeisi scheme reaches into corporate America as well. The grand jury is investigating Arthur Berman, who was president of Chase & Sanborn in 1981-84 and Chock Full o' Nuts in 1984-85. The Lloyd's lawsuit contends that the executive, knowing the coffee was smuggled, accepted "substantial commissions" from Bilbeisi and Coffee Inc. to facilitate sales to Chase & Sanborn and Chock Full o' Nuts. Bilbeisi's company ledgers show $160,000 in cash and checks paid to Berman. In a 1988 deposition, Berman denied the payments were illegal commissions, insisting they were merely loans that he used to support...
Thelma and Louise act out a male fantasy of life on the road, avoiding intimacy with loud music, Wild Turkey, fast driving -- and a gun in the pants. The movie has almost as many chase scenes per reel as Smokey and the Bandit. The characters don't confide in each other as real-life women would. When Thelma asks what happened in Louise's secret past in Texas that makes her murderous, Louise refuses to talk and warns her not to ask about it. She turns driving from Oklahoma to Mexico without going through the Lone Star State into...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
...natural. When you sneeze, 15 handkerchiefs come out. I mean, everywhere you go, people just can't do enough for you. At Christmas people are bangin' on your door, dropping off gifts. If it rains, 25 umbrellas open up. If you walk into a restaurant, they'll chase the person out of the best table and put you there. There's just so much glamour and respect and money. The nightclubs, the broads. Broads just die over you. It's unbelievable. In the Mob, you've got friends; you belong to an army, something that is so powerful...