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...will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary" of random black-and-white footage of Sicily, reaching a comic apogee by intoning about Gestalt psychology as the film shows pigs being slaughtered...
...Newsman Douglas Kiker uses Cape Cod in winter as the setting for Murder on Clam Pond (Random House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...
Under the new NCAA rules, 36 players from each playoff team are subject to the random, unannounced tests...
...fact, boorish and unimaginative is a pretty good description of the game at hand. Referees Bob Madigan and Don Winterton (or, as they were introduced Saturday night, "Mr. Bob Madigan and Mr. Don Winterton") spent the game blowing their whistles at seemingly random intervals, calling a whopping 50 fouls overall. Five of the eight Harvard players who saw action ended with four fouls...
...Random House...