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...AENEID Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Random House; 416 pages...
Publishing can be a dog-eat-dog world. Consider some of last week's news. First Random House snapped Norman Mailer, 60, away from Little, Brown. He wanted a publisher based in Manhattan rather than one in faraway Boston, explained Mailer's agent, who down-played reports that, in addition to New York, Random House threw in a tidy $4 million for the author's next four novels. Meanwhile, Doubleday also had something to bark about. Its newest author is one C. Fred Bush, 11, four-legged companion of George and Barbara Bush. Due in April...
...nurse pops the nipple into Gery's mouth and then turns on a nearby loudspeaker. A recorded male voice begins to recite a random series of similar syllables: "Bee, see, lee, see, mee, lee, bee, see, lee, mee." Gery's infant fingers clutch at the orange base of the nipple. Whenever he hears a new sound he sucks harder, and his heart beats faster. When he gets used to these sounds, his attention fades, and his sucking slows down. The computer tirelessly counts the number of sucks per minute...
...seat symphony hall, convention facilities and a 15-story hotel tower, circling a sunken court lined with shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble of different colors, and gold and silver doorknobs to create an effect of subtlety and restraint...
NOBODY CARED FOR KATE by Gene Thompson Random House; 266 pages...