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...beat. But after his respectfully received The Information in 1995, Amis went on an extended excursion into journalism, criticism, memoir, short stories and genre fiction. Doubts crept through the world of letters. Shots were taken, publicly, by the likes of Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt. People found his immense talent obtrusive and, frankly, kind of irritating. Now Amis' first big novel in eight years, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books; 340 pages), has arrived in the U.S., still charred and smoking from vicious attacks in the British press. Does he, not to put too fine a point on it, still have...
...worthlessness, Kazan says, is what drove him. It stemmed from his foreignness (he immigrated to the U.S. with his Greek parents when he was four); his lack of social status at Williams College, which he worked his way through as a fraternity-house waiter, and his lack of visible talent at the Yale Drama School ... [Director] Harold Clurman ... informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals ... [Kazan had] more brief affairs than he can count or recount-including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. 'Sick,' Kazan...
...confident we have the talent to win Heps next year,” McLean-Foreman said. “The important thing for us as a team is to recognize we are a lot better than our performances so far this season. If we can build confidence with quality training we definitely have a very good shot at the title next year...
...Paul stepped up and had his best performance of the season to help round off our team score,” Bienvenu said. “[He] is a very talented runner, and it is these kind of breakthrough performances by our freshmen that show how much young talent we have on our team...
...went from being the big fish in a little pond to being a little fish in a big pond,” Hanson said. “But he brought an awful lot of talent and showed a maturity young kids don’t often have...