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...example, is led by Mayor Wu Teh, who was appointed the city's acting mayor in 1966 when Chiang Ch'ing was busily promoting her supporters. Last year Wu Teh (who was confirmed in his post six years later) inveighed against Teng Hsiao-p'ing as an "unrepentant capitalist reader." Since then Teng has made a spectacular comeback, gaining the powerful post of Vice Premier. Wu is now in trouble...
...columnists are too competitive to be "orchestrated ; but they do move in the same circles and have a common need to catch the reader's eye three times a week or so. They share an environment they do not often leave...
True Confessions, John Gregory Dunne's first novel, is Tom Spellacy's unrepentant recollections of his life as a tarnished blue knight. He proves to be a gifted, foulmouthed raconteur who can charm the reader down to a plane where cynicism and sentimentality are indistinguishable and the difference between social history and gossip is irrelevant. His "book" on Lois Fazenda, a would-be starlet whose naked body was found neatly cut in two at the torso: "She lived in a series of boarding houses much like the one on North Cherokee. On West Adams Boulevard she thought...
Coach Bob Scalise seemed pleased with his team's efforts, magnanimously offering them free dinner at McDonald's after the game. To leave the reader with a more balanced impression of the man's generosity it must also be reported that Scalise couched his offer with reminders that his players might benefit from getting back to Dillon quickly and taking a hot shower to relieve their cold, tired bodies...
...small but important fate to be played out against the background of a faltering England. Drabble has the novelistic strength to make the most of her role as omniscient author, taking a God's eye view toward her characters that is at once demanding yet sympathetic. Fortunately for the reader, she has the psychological insight and talent to carry...