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...unsavory male presence and the kids with an unsuitable role model. Aside from Quayle, the story contains only meetings with abridgeable--and abridged--men, in contrast to the subtlety with which some of the women are sketched. (While this does not constitute a major flaw within the novel, the reader still wonders whether some of one's best friends could...
Completing such a sentence is not guarantee one will finish with any sense of its meaning. Just what Hardwick does mean about the subjects of her essays is often a question that goes unanswered. She seems more concerned with her prose than with her reader, and the erudition generally obscures whatever ideas prompted her to write the piece...
...reviews are concerned with stylistic pyrotechnics, while her general essays are generally impenetrable. Hardwick is never dull however, and one reads on simply to decipher her meaning. That the essays are compelling despite their impenetrability is a measure of Hardwick's skill" unfortunately, these essays do not other the reader concrete proof of Hardwick's talent, only the illusory promise...
...veteran observer"-and a fond one at that-the emphasis on jazzy design changes in all these post-mortem announcements has an air of desperation, like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: "I can be taller! I can be shorter!" Come now, get hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number of helmets that quarterback appears...
...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...