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With so many genes busily at work, all would seem to be well with the author's warm-weather fiction. But Novelist Weldon is much too fond of the kind of ornateness that clutters Iris Murdoch's lesser novels-in this case, the ponderous idea that Hamish is Rumpelstiltskin and Elsa is the poor girl for whom he spins straw into gold. Gemma insists that Elsa do huge batches of typing each night. Elsa can't manage it, but Hamish...
...told it, her life read like the scenario for a Broadway musical: the rebellious daughter of a rich Madrid family flees her unloving husband and arrives in Manhattan, pregnant, frightened and perilously low on funds. She endures trials that would break a lesser spirit. Finally, thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side...
...code will deter banks from actively assisting their customers in breaking national laws. Says he: "We are no longer assuming that every banker is a gentleman and that he observes the rules." Leutwiler speculates that the new code may even force the eventual closing of a "small minority" of lesser banks that have operated on the fringes of the vaunted Swiss system...
...sunnier face. But that is merely tactical, says Revel, because the frown is sure to follow. Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is "simply a button-down Stalin without the old man's dementia." He has not emptied the Gulag of its millions of prisoners nor have any of the lesser Gulags in all the other Communist nations been dismantled. In fact, when Russia relaxes its grip on nations like Rumania and Albania, their societies tend to become even harsher and more restrictive. "De-Russification," writes Revel, "does not mean democratization...
Some juvenile courts make the punishment fit the crime precisely. The thief is forced to make restitution; he may go to work for the person whose property he has stolen or destroyed, or he may take some other job until the money is paid back. In Seattle, lesser offenders are put to work in hospitals, state and local agencies and community service projects. When restitution has been made, they are eligible for full-time jobs with social service programs. In Memphis, Judge Turner occasionally orders parents to subsidize their child in some correctional institution. Says he: "That puts more responsibility...