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Turow is the 92nd writer to appear on the cover of TIME. The first was novelist Joseph Conrad in the magazine's sixth issue, in 1923. Eight have appeared twice: George Bernard Shaw (1923 and 1956), Sinclair Lewis (1927 and 1945), James Joyce (1934 and 1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937 and 1954), Andre Malraux (1938 and 1955), William Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr...
...India has found an ally in a U.S. company. After four years of negotiations, PepsiCo last week began to sell its soft drinks in India. Over the next ten years, PepsiCo and its Indian partners are expected to invest $1 billion in their joint venture. As a result, Christopher Sinclair, president of Pepsi-Cola International, has urged U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills not to impose any economic sanctions against India. Says Sinclair: "We feel that punitive actions by the U.S. would only derail things." Hills has until July 16 to make her decision...
Traditional radio drama is also getting a wider airing on NPR. The network broadcast Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' novel of Main Street shenanigans, complete with music, sound effects and a cast of 34 readers, including Ed Asner (as George Babbitt), Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and John Lithgow. Among future projects: Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and muckraking novelist Frank Norris' McTeague. Asner, who was paid a mere $2,300 for his work, which stretched over nine months, finds it satisfying nonetheless. Says he: "I grew...
...diary, Mencken tells the story of this group--his interactions with them, their personal foibles, their hypocrisies, and his fascination with all of the above. He recounts anecdotes about his friends and enemies with equal glee--one moment excoriating Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald as washed-up old drunks, the next extolling their work...
Blue Velvet (1986). Deadpan humor and deadpan violence in small-town America. If Sinclair Lewis and Mickey Spillane had collaborated on a Sandra Dee movie, they might have created a dreamscape something like writer-director David Lynch's -- vivid, dislocating, utterly original...