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GHOST. The summer's surprise smash has something for everyone: mystery, comedy and love with the proper corpse. This pile-driving romance trivializes the issue of mourning the dead (they don't usually return to earth for a quickie), but no matter. Audiences believe in Ghost. It's Field of Dreams with a little...
...have been reading and cooking from a large pile of the newest cookbooks for the past several months, full of wonder at the variety and sophistication of modern American cookery. That is all the more remarkable because only a decade or so ago, most of the country was stuck in the pot-roast-and-mashed- potato syndrome. This new crop of cookbooks will tell you everything from how to clean raw abalone to how to prepare a really good, well, pot roast with mashed potatoes, one of my favorites. The cookbooks incorporate all the flavors and delicacy...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...wounded, Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of the abortive coup, emerged from the television-broadcast building in Port-of- Spain and laid down his rifle. "Allah is the greatest," he said, then stood in the pouring rain as 70 of his followers added their arms to the growing pile of weapons and were taken into custody by Trinidadian soldiers. The rebels are expected to face criminal charges of treason, murder and kidnapping, and could be hanged if found guilty...