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Phoenix's Kevin Johnson is one of the best point guards in the league, and Tom Chambers and Eddie Johnson provide a solid nucleus for a potential championship team...
...Unlike its predecessor, Foucault's Pendulum does not restrict its range of interests to monastic, medieval arcana. This time Eco's framework is vast -- capacious enough to embrace reams of ancient, abstruse writings and a host of contemporary references or allusions. The latter include the Yellow Submarine, Casablanca, Tom and Jerry, Lina Wertmuller, Barbara Cartland, Stephen King, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, the Pink Panther, Minnie Mouse and Hellzapoppin. What do all of these things have to do with one another? Eco's teasing answer: maybe everything, maybe nothing...
...obese volumes by heavyweight authors on Richard Nixon are upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased...
...Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe caricatured the voracious men who work 16-hour days, earn outrageous salaries that never keep pace with their desires, and consider themselves "Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the top of the food chain is Salomon's CEO, who presides with a smooth amalgam of drive and hypocrisy, speaking loftily of social issues and encouraging his staff to bilk the clients. Below him are ranks of predators, among them a man so dedicated to consumption that he is labeled "the Human...
...Chase, Oscar Chiang, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie...