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...witty or engaging as the narrator's, we are never told how everyone in the novel became conscious of lightness. Unreasonably, no one who makes religious or metaphysical assumptions is allowed on stage; one gets the feeling that Kundera is confused by such people and (unlike Waugh or Forster) cannot write about them...
...sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing efforts, lest state and local governments start taking the closest look...
Both saw Literary grist in the Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken...
...author humbles his proud pair, he also proves to be a tender provider in the end. Wise Virgin (there are none here outside the old manuscript) is both deeper and more compassionate than Wilson's earlier novels, as if he had put aside the temptation to echo Evelyn Waugh's inimitable malice and had found his own balance between light and dark comedy...
Three weeks after the Oct. 25 U.S. military invasion, life on the tiny island took on an Evelyn Waugh flavor. The week's only known military casualty was a paratrooper who hurt himself while body surfing. Marijuana sales resumed along Ganja Alley, a colorful corner of St. George's, and local businessmen had their first postinvasion Rotary Club luncheon. Even Gail Reed, the American-born wife of the Cuban ambassador, whose embassy had been ringed for days by U.S. troops, was able to joke before flying back to Havana: "I'm just sorry I left my Jane...