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...contemporary stars ignored: Jack Nicholson's unforgettable confrontation with the waitress in Five Easy Pieces is longer than the burning-of-Atlanta clip from Gone With the Wind...
Barrett, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of several nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...even when grace is given, as Bharati reads the situation, the Christian mystic must dissemble his experience through a series of tricky theological mirrors. He is a sacred maverick who goes straight to the boss over the heads of middle management, and clerical bureaucrats are usually looking to clip his wings...
...truck which sat under his uncle's bedroom window. He raised the hood carefully, swearing at the rusty hinges which sang painful cat songs as he propped it up. A light snapped on in the house. Jesus, thought Bell, and groped for the distributor cap, fastening his alligator clip to it and grounding the other clip to the engine block. He slammed the hood and jumped in, put a cautious foot on the gas, and felt the engine pull itself to life. He began to back out, concentration on the rear view mirror and not looking at the window where...
...first quarter of this year, business was heading back toward its pre-slump levels at a rapid clip-so rapid as to stir some fear that the economy might become overheated. Real gross national product-total output of goods and services discounted for inflation -surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7%, astonishing for a huge, mature economy. Last week a "flash" estimate circulated within the Government that the real G.N.P. increase during the current quarter might slow to a rate of about 3%. While such early estimates are often unreliable, Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economic adviser...