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...takes some living to get to this insight. Other than Munro's considerable talent, the only constants in these stories are remorseless time and blind fate. This does not mean that Munro can't have a little fun. The Jack Randa Hotel is high comedy in which a woman secretly follows her runaway husband to New Zealand, where she intercepts his letters to a woman he does not know is dead. The abandoned wife then has her small revenge by forging snotty but elegantly written responses...
...debates is the stunning irrelevancy of most of the exchanges. Never mentioned was the fast-escalating savings-and-loan crisis. Not a word was devoted to the economic challenge from Japan. There was never more than a hint, even from Dukakis, that paper prosperity might soon give way to remorseless recession...
...they cannot place. "I hear it too," says the author. "It's not supernatural or anything silly like that. It's just a sense that things are going on around you." Armed with TV, the fax and endless phone calls from an international army of well-placed pals, this remorseless observer is picking up every buzz...
ABOUT 40% OF AMERICANS DRINK WINE at least occasionally. Any of them who latch onto WINE SNOBBERY (Simon & Schuster; $20) will have their eyebrows raised by this self-styled expose of what's behind -- and what sometimes goes into -- the noble beverage. In remorseless detail, British oenophile Andrew Barr explains how France's supposedly rigid appellation laws protect mediocrity more than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little...
...expedient. He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every move. He is simply a brutal and very clever pragmatist." Adds TIME correspondent Dan Goodgame: "On meeting him, a visitor is first struck by his eyes, crackling with alertness and at the same time cold and remorseless as snake eyes on the sides of dice. They are the eyes of a killer...