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...from Cheever's discarding his old tactics but from loosening them Cheever has long been called America's preeminent "storyteller" by many diverse critics and colleagues as well as eager book jacket hacks because he clearly has some kind of talent, and "storyteller" is the category of last resort. When you're not a novelist of ideas, a spelunker of the soul, or failing that, a lister of the lusts, you are defacto a storyteller Unfortunately, that is not quite the appropriate term For Cheever has, over his career, penned more arabesques than stories. Moorish in their conspicuous lack...
...response. He was incensed by what he saw as the cynicism of prominent Democrats who had taken America into the war and now assuaged their guilt by insistent attacks on a President who was trying to get us out. He was outraged-and justifiably-at the radicals' resort to methods at or beyond the borderline of legality: the terrorism of the Weather Underground, fire bombings at universities, massive theft of documents, unauthorized leaks, incitement of draft resistance and desertion...
...prolonged stalemate. His reasons: a strained economy, naval bases that are awkwardly located, unreliable satellites, and equipment and maintenance that are generally inferior to those of the West. This is not especially good news, for if a Soviet blitzkrieg should fail, Dunnigan feels that Russian leaders might quickly resort to chemical and nuclear weapons...
...American, Charles Horman, is fact, certainly. A bright, left-leaning freelance writer and documentary film maker, Horman, together with his wife Joyce, moved to Santiago, Chile, in 1972, eager to watch the development of the new Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende. Horman was visiting the seaside resort of Vina del Mar with another American woman, Terry Simon, when Allende was overthrown by a military coup on Sept. 11,1973. According to a journal they kept at the time, Horman and Simon saw and spoke to several U.S. military officials in Vina who strongly hinted that the coup had been...
...summer, the Home Ranch, north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., is a modestly successful dude ranch, luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with live horseflesh and barbecued beef. When the snows come, the ranch, like scores of summer inns and resorts from the California Sierra to Massachusetts, becomes a cross-country skiing resort. The demand for cross-country accommodations-and the carefully prepared trails through snowy woods, mountains and meadows they offer-has risen dramatically...