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...fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life and of his own sententious observations. Yet at times Cheever imposes them on the reader as if the novel itself were a correctional institution. "We prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse the thoughts of men's hearts because of the grief with which we are acquainted." Another...
...grizzled teller of grisly war tales is also a time traveler who discovers a new world he cannot comprehend. Lest even the dimmest reader miss Rosales' mythic overtones. Day gives him the nickname El Lobo and introduces a scene in which the hero stares pensively at a caged but still spunky wolf...
...million, mostly to women. Similar proceedings have cost Merrill Lynch $ 1.9 million and Bank of America more than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that has already knuckled under: New York's venerable "21," which recently paid damages and hired its first women to wait on tables...
...STYLE throughout much of Laughing Last is choppy and down to earth--deliberately so. It seems the technique is intended to give the reader the feeling of a friend informally telling him the family secrets--closeted skeletons and all--over a drink. Sometimes, however, this tape-recorder like roughness creates non sequiturs. With a few exceptions, though, the unbuttoned style is a success, drawing us into the story, giving it immediacy and, in the end, making us care...
...book that deal with the machinations of Bob Strauss, Democratic National Chairman, or other political figures are pedestrian. One trouble with this book--the big trouble with it--is that most of this stuff has been reproted before. There's just not anything new that a faithful reader of The New York Times, or even Time or Newsweek, doesn't already know...