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American Psycho, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in January, runs 362 pages in edited manuscript. Crawls, actually. Barely distinguishable chapters are stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
...protect themselves, some lawmakers have tried to blur their incumbent status. In Illinois, for instance, Democratic Senator Paul Simon is airing a TV commercial that shows his opponent, Congresswoman Lynn Martin, next to a copy of the Congressional Record while an announcer reels off her votes. Simon is described as "fighting" for this or that cause, rather than "voting" on anything. The spot leaves doubt as to just who has been in the Senate for the past six years. The motif of fighting for the home folks against Washington shows up in many ads in other states...
...concerned about aspects of the case. In an amicus curiae brief, the chapter urged that charges involving "negligent" and "reckless" speech be dropped, reasoning that a finding for the plaintiff on those grounds could have a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. A.C.L.U. lawyer Michael H. Simon adds, however, that adequate proof that Tom Metzger intended to cause serious harm by sending agents to Oregon would void his concern...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Kenneth Collura, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...
...Enders 1954 Medicine, Physiology Frederick C. Robbins 1954 Medicine, Physiology Thomas H. Weller 1954 Medicine, Physiology George von Bekesy 1961 Medicine, Physiology James D. Watson 1962 Medicine, Physiology Konrad E. Bloch 1964 Medicine, Physiology Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics Robert Burns Woodward 1965 Chemistry George Wald 1967 Medicine, Physiology Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontif 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb 1976 Chemistry John H. Van Vleck 1977 Physics Sheldon L. Glashow 1979 Physics Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics Baruj Benacerraf 1980 Medicine, Physiology Walter Gilbert 1980 Chemistry David Hubel 1981 Medicine Torsten Wiesel...