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A referendum in which California residents barred the state from "grant[ing] preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethinicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting," with the exception of jobs that have "bona fide...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule...
But to these charges, we "take exception." You were basketball's absolute. In the midst of bad broadcasters with worse sense of humors, you stayed Marv.
After World War II, nothing of such magnitude would be tried in America; the triumph of the glass-box International Style meant the death of ornament and a recoil from "fine" material. Nor, in the '70s and '80s, was the cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive...
The energies of cultural periods don't last forever. The Italian Renaissance came to an end--not suddenly, like a snapping rope, but gradually, through fraying, mutation, replacement. And one would need to be an extreme optimist--some would say, a willfully blind one as well--to think that the...