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...such previous novels as Dog Soldiers (1974) and A Flag for Sunrise (1981): exposing characters to dangers, external and psychological, that they may be unprepared to handle. Owen Browne, fortyish, a graduate of the Naval Academy who served four years in Vietnam, now sells pleasure boats for an outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have a comfortable Connecticut house, an island summer retreat and a mildly rebellious...
...hovering in a musical purgatory, unable to produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...
...conquest of the Americas, now becomes its demon; and the victims, who cannot be brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise makes him more like Hitler in a caravel, landing like...
...public starts getting in the way. Such is the crisis facing law-enforcement officials in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the city's worst intrafamily gangland war in 30 years is now raging. The culprits: the black-sheep Colombo clan, the Mafia's most reckless, divisive and dull-witted crime outfit. Not only have six members or associates of the group been killed since late November, but at least five innocent bystanders have also been shot or otherwise injured. Seeking to bring the gunplay under control, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has launched a dubious grand jury investigation and is slapping subpoenas...
...repossessed, his casinos are ailing, but he still has plenty of financial advice. Anybody care to listen? . . . The art market collapsed after its 1980s hysteria. Old masters still fetch a fortune, but the products of hustlers like Julian Schnabel have fallen off the wall . . . L.A. Gear, the trendy sneaker outfit that not long ago talked of whipping Reebok and Nike, has proved that when it comes to athletic shoes, fashion is fleeting . . . Louisiana voters were spared the ex-Klansman and instead got the twice-indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former Defense Secretary and bank executive, claimed ignorance about...