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...Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy. The organizers of the meeting included Thomas Downey of New York, a Carter supporter, and Toby Moffett of Connecticut, a Kennedy backer. Among those who attended were Don Edwards of California, Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and three leading black Representatives: Shirley Chisholm of New York, John Conyers of Michigan and Ronald Dellums of California...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard...
...ready to laugh at sight gags--control tower operators playing pong basketball on radar screens--some genuinely racist humor--in the form on two men speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background for the jokes, there are as many dull moments as there are funny ones...
...TRANSIT OF VENUS by Shirley Hazzard Viking; 337 pages; $11.95 " Venus can blot out the sun," the heroine of The Transit of Venus cries out, racked by her unremitting passion for a man who repeatedly abandons her. Astronomically, the observation is inaccurate. Still, there can be no doubt that Shirley Hazzard's Venus has eclipsed other recent efforts to illuminate the unending agonies of obsessive love. "The tragedy is not that love doesn't last," says another of the novel's sufferers. "The tragedy is the love that lasts...
With a six-figure income-$65,000 in salary plus fees as a director of seven corporations (including American Express and Xerox)-Jordan lives with his wife Shirley and daughter Vickee in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue. He is an avid tennis player and pro football fan. He travels in a chauffeured Mercury, wears Brooks Brothers suits and relishes expensive wines and cigars...