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Feeling a little like that gong, the 64-year-old N.F.L. has been losing some rather choice material to the two-year-old spring league-from eminent Underclassmen Herschel Walker (newly renegotiated New Jersey Generals contract: $6 million for four years) and Marcus Dupree (New Orleans Breakers, $6 million for...
Fram now spends most of his waking hours behind the executive desk in the Review president's office, beneath stately portraits of Louis D. Brandies, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Class of 1861. Felix Frankfurter, and other eminent jurists.
In the past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union...
Pre-eminent among the new émigrés is Vasili Aksyonov, 51, who departed from the Soviet Union in 1980 with two major novels in manuscript and a head full of ideas for new work. Since settling in the U.S. he has finished two more novels, both of which...
But there is more, the experts note, as they put the pieces together. Anchorman Dan Rather took a long look at Mondale on the CBS Evening News in September 1983. Indeed Mondale had never faded from he screen after defeat. As early as October 1981 he was back on Meet...