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...chapters aren't unreadable, but they are unstrung: a series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel. Chabon seems to be winking at friends: Look, here's a ridiculous bit in which Tripp gets the dean of students pregnant. And here's Miss Sloviak, the transvestite, and here's Tripp's car with a dead dog and a tuba in the trunk. Some of this is worth a smile, some a raised eyebrow, but let's agree with Chabon's publisher that he has actually written his third book...
...brought to use on himself. He also manages to make off with Walter's prized possession, the jacket worn by Marilyn Monroe at her wedding to Joe DiMaggio. Throw in the fact that Grady's wife left him that morning, and that Sara has just revealed that she is pregnant with his child, and you have a pair with some serious problems...
...results of man's trying to replace God with an atheistic faith in computers. In "Decalogue 2"--"Thou shall not take the name of the Lord in vain"--a man tries to step into God's shoes. A woman asks a doctor if her husband is dying. She is pregnant by another man and has never been able to have a child before--this may be her last chance. If her husband lives, she must give up the child. She loves her husband, she loves her lover and she also loves the unborn child (although she tries to chain-smoke...
...York Times report that their ties to a charity run by Mary Cunningham may have caused them to cast a blind eye on problems at the company. One director and the wives of three others sit on the board of the charity, called the Nurturing Network, which helps pregnant young women find alternatives to abortion. "There is absolutely no conflict of interest there," declares Gerard Roche, chairman of the executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles, who serves on both the corporate and charity boards. "We never pulled our punches. We never had any inhibitions about reviewing Bill Agee's performance...
Utah Republican ENID GREENE WALDHOLTZ is one elected official who will deliver. The freshman Congresswoman is pregnant, and colleagues are treating her with the care reserved for tax-cut legislation. Advised Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the only other woman to have a baby while in Congress (in 1973): Wear low heels, and "introduce all the bills you want now, because everyone will be afraid to debate...