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...last week that comment might have been taken as a clue. Friends who knew Simpson well understood that he was a creature of careful intention, the natural ease a measure of his discipline. He did not so much change, from the days of his raw, painful childhood, as add layers, coats of polish that only occasionally peeled. One day he was making a television commercial in Oakland, California, and fell into his first language, the street-corner argot of his gang years. Furious with himself, he stopped the shooting, regrouped and then said he wanted to do it again...
That is good news for the entire world. Even with the U.S. well into its recovery, the slump in Japan and Europe has dragged down the global economy, hurting demand for raw materials and other export goods from developing countries. But last month the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) reported that it was revising upward its 1994 growth estimates for Germany, the powerhouse of the European economic engine, from 0.8% annually to 1.8%. The organization now predicts the Japanese economy will expand 0.8% in 1994 -- last year it grew 0.1% -- and the European Union 1.9%, vs. a drop...
...Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic arthropathy (as Potter did), recalls his youth in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean (where he grew up). For a quarter-century, Potter was England's raw conscience, its collective grudge keeper and, to many, its pre-eminent playwright...
...proponent of the post-cold war's leading fallacy: economic might counts far more than military clout. The quintessential domestic President, Clinton sees everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo the words of a President whose penchant for muddleheaded multinationalism he much admires. "A nation that is boycotted is a nation in sight of surrender," said Woodrow Wilson in 1919. "Apply this peaceful, silent...
...trilogy that began with Horses. The hero of that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same spare terrain, this time just before World War II. Violence, raw land, unlettered people, love, loss and a throat-slit dog have something to do with the new narrative; or you could say it is about that mean crossing from child to man, told as cleanly as you'll find...