Word: containment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually reduce the publishing industry's incentive to bring out worthy books if they don't seem headed for the best-seller lists. Random House editor Jason Epstein, for one, has undertaken on his own to produce a bookstore in the form of a mail-order catalog that will contain about 200 categories of books and more than 40,000 titles, each accompanied by a short explanation. The $24.95 catalog, the size of a telephone book, will be available in bookstores in September (initial printing: 50,000 copies...
...sure in The Russia House. Scarcely a dozen pages into this novel, Le Carre's twelfth, a document of potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence of the U.S.S.R. will obviously have profound effects on Western defense policies...
...designing a supercomputer and getting it to market are two different things, and with his latest machine Cray may have pushed the technology one step too far. Not only does the 16-processor Cray-3 contain four times as many central calculating units as the Cray-2 (an increase that more than quadruples its complexity), but it relies on an as-yet-unproved technological advance: replacing silicon chips with faster ones made of gallium arsenide. Add to Cray's headaches the fact that his new computer is so compact that assembly by hand is difficult. Before production could begin...
...last vision of Yellowstone most people carried into winter was far less bucolic. It was an image of immense walls of flame thundering across the canopy of lodgepole pine forests, leaping entire ridgelines in a searing specter of natural destruction that mocked man's effort to contain it. The fires of 1988 appeared to be an environmental Armageddon. "If you looked at the fire storms, you would have thought that nothing would have survived," says Ed Lewis, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, an ecological watchdog group...
This is never an easy question (autobiographies frequently contain more fancy than novels), but so far as one needs a guide to the free state of Theroux's imagination, it is this: like the author, the novel's hero, Andrew (sometimes Andre) Parent, was born and reared in Massachusetts, spent a good part of the '60s teaching and traveling in the Third World, and eventually made his mark as a London-based writer...