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Then the phone rings, and the Old Al is back. "Philly!" he barks at Philip Smith, his finance director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where D'Amato is in charge of recruiting, promoting and bankrolling Senate candidates nationwide. Smith isn't up to speed on a project. "Get with it!" D'Amato roars. "Get with the program! No! Get your brain in synch." He tries to restrain himself, but it's hard. He cracks the whip about fund raising--"I'm not happy! Speed it up!"--then checks on an event. "How much we gonna gross? Hell, you gotta...
MORRIS (MICKEY) SABBATH is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the urology hall of fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel, Sabbath's Theater (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here...
...Roth extracts it, as he has done for nearly 40 years, with a technique and verbal flair unmatched by his contemporaries. Sabbath the houseguest rummaging through a teenager's underwear drawer or attempting to seduce his host's wife is the sort of baggy-pants antic that a young Philip Roth probably enjoyed in Newark, New Jersey's long-gone burlesque houses. Readers may remember one of them as the place where Alexander Portnoy discovered an unconventional way to break in his baseball glove...
...rare gesture, ABC apologized twice on-air for stating on a newsmagazine show that two tobacco companies, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, had added extra nicotine to their cigarettes. The apologies were part of a settlement by ABC and the two companies that had sued the network for libel. ABC will also pay their legal expenses. But the network stands by the "principal thrust" of its report--that cigarette makers use reconstituted tobacco to control the level of nicotine in cigarettes...
...PHILIP MORRIS & R.J. REYNOLDS ABC apologizes for its charge that they "spike" smokes with nicotine...