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Less serious, but no less rancorous or symbolic, was the allegation of censorship in the publication of the U.N.'s own 50th-anniversary commemorative book, A Vision of Hope. The editor, Jonathan Power, a British journalist, protested that the U.N. staff made extensive cuts in the manuscript that 15 writers had turned in. Power says more than 70 references were deleted and most focused on nations cited for abusing human rights or failing to sign the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...adolescent, Allende spent time in La Paz and Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American...
...computers was not what Elmer-DeWitt had in mind when he arrived at Time in 1979. For one thing, the magazine was not covering the field at the time. For another, he first signed on as a temporary secretary. "Like many people," he recalls, "I decided to be a journalist in the aftermath of the Watergate hearings. I was trying to make it as a freelance writer and was basically starving. I needed a paycheck...
...becomes the target of his own satire. At the center of the story is S.O. Letterman, a movie producer who starts off high-minded and ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest...
...properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...