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...almost too delicious a novel to take seriously, to read any other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...
Theosophist Kenneth Buzby predicted that war will become a thing of the past, that cancer will be cured and pollution overcome. But most prophets were decidedly gloomier. Several foresaw an end of the American presidency, perhaps by the year 2025. Tarot Card Reader Johanna Okovic predicted an earthquake in New York City in 1978 and a war between 2011 and 2016. Astrologer Leah O'Leary, Michael's wife, forecast a "naval conflict" in 1979, floods on both the East and West coasts and a "nuclear mishap...
Almost two years after resigning as Watergate Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski has finally produced his long-expected account of the anxious, turbulent, year-long investigation that he directed into the worst scandal in American history. His book The Right and The Power (Gulf Publishing Co. and Reader's Digest Press; $9.95) is a straightforward, rather dry rendering, often made even drier by lengthy quotes from legal documents. Jaworski, who is donating the royalties to his own nonprofit foundation (which supports religious and educational projects), nonetheless offers some intriguing anecdotes and pungent observations. Among them...
...isolated from the commu nity and ridiculed by his neighbors. Solomon illustrates this with a 19th Century photograph of two people suffering the cangue, or penal collar, in which their faces are framed for public censure. A postrevolutionary picture shows fanatical Red Guards parading an alleged "capitalist reader" who was forced to wear a dunce...
...second honeymoon on the French Riviera. But Kevin, her husband of 16 years, is not with her. He is having trouble getting away from both his medical practice in Belfast and the provincial conviction that a foreign holiday is a waste of good Irish scenery. As any novel reader could tell him, he is not only courting cuckoldry but demanding it. Sheila, of course, falls in love with a handsome American, eleven years her junior, and goes off on a binge of sexual ecstasy well beyond the range of her convent-schooled imagination. The next thing Kevin knows, his wife...