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...reputation. AIPAC has a student affiliate at Harvard called HIPAC which shares the same goals. Thus, it is no coincidence that HIPAC's "Facts about a Tragedy" advertisement was biased toward Israel. But what I find particularly dishonest is Enis' reliance on this advertisement in his editorial. Any reader who read both the advertisement and Enis' editorial would have noticed the same "facts," the same wording, even the same quote from an Israeli official. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see how Israeli propaganda works in this country: from the mouths of Israeli officials, to AIPAC...
LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...
...care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren ad to act out Dinah's problem. They meet Dinah in a fake world, where no one has money troubles and there's nothing between Los Angeles and East Hampton...
...drive men mad with multiple orgasms. She can also fox computer memories and detonate nuclear warheads. Good, gorgeous Valentina uses the power of Jesus for psychic healing. Hammond's problem is to keep sickly General Secretary Yuri Andropov alive until Mikhail Gorbachev is able to take over. This reader's problem is that he doesn't believe a word...
...seems odd to some that events like Lee sabotaging her own chances of going to MIT, or Lee's first sexual encounter and pregnancy scare would be included in a popular work like The Dead Girl. But in reading, it becomes obvious that Thernstrom wants--indeed needs--the reader to know the artistic and capricious girl she knew. And although Lee, in Thernstrom's candid depiction of her, is not always likeable, the reader never doubts their friendship...