Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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War (Little, Brown; 184 pages; $17.50), Richard Humble, an English military historian, goes further than most of his fraternity to get it all in. Some of his vignettes of battle scenes-half-crazed English soldiers fighting naked at Agincourt, defeated German troops stumbling drunkenly from the First Marne-are as...
"Tell that guy not to announce me over the microphone as the bodybuilder," Arnold was saying. "I think my writing ability has succeeded the bodybuilding. Announce me as the best-selling author." A Coop employee spoke to Arnold in German, and left. "Every time I come here she wants me...
The Executioner's Song, By Norman Mailer. (Little, Brown. $16.95): This is simply the most important book of the year. Norman Mailer '43 tells the story of Gary Gilmore, the professional convict and murderer who was executed in Utah in 1978, in a spare prose style pervaded with the dread...
To the conquistadors, the legend was a promise of fabled riches-a great lost city or a temple filled with treasures or perhaps an entire mountain of gold. Indeed, El Dorado (Spanish for "the gilded one") may well have had a basis in fact. Folklore holds that Colombia's...
In South America, the ubiquitous narrator makes love to a madwoman while slapping ferociously at mosquitoes "whose blood had been our blood only an instant before." One night in Israel, he hides naked on an apartment-house roof, like a character in a French farce, as a jealous husband prowls...