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...funny, and everyone laughs. Well, don't buy it. Allen hates improvisations with a passion. He needs to be in control, and from the beginning of his career has demanded (and won) the right to write, direct, star in, and even handle the promotion for his films. Every seemingly random pause, gesture, intonation in his material is carefully practiced and structured to contribute to the whole; it is the only way the nervous young Allen could overcome his fear of failure. That habit of maintaining total control stayed with him through his career. As for the easygoing, casual manner...
...Random House; 236 pages...
...currency in which most international deals are made and which central banks keep in their vaults as reserves. During recent runs on the dollar, the first signs of financial panic could be seen. World money markets now resemble the urban ghettos of the 1960s, when a random traffic ticket or barroom scuffle could set off days of bloody rampages. The most implausible rumors out of Washington or the Middle East cause currency jitters and a dollar fall...
THERE ARE LEFTISTS, however, for whom band-aids won't do. There are leftists who maintain a radical perspective while proposing concrete, feasible alternatives. A random sample...
...heard on radio peddling his wares in much the same way that gravel-voiced Tom Carvel sells the products of his ice cream shops. But authors of forthcoming books are woebegone. Linley Stafford, a publicist whose first book, One Man's Family, will be published by Random House on Oct. 13, has postponed the press party ("How can you have one without a press?" his agent asked). Says Stafford: "If you don't get a New York Times review, you can get lost between the cracks...