I never know where to look" Shock of recognition, anyone? The house sitter then plans to make a list: " 'I hate singing' would be No 1. I've been trying to build a house of cards amid a house of people, One should be alone to build a house of cards. Major countries have changed their wine laws, occasionally with historic consequences; since 1974, Portugal requires that vintage port be bottled there, ending the tradition that it be bottled in Britain. Something in the midst of one entry will lead the mind inevitably to another article, and that to a third, as the specialist reader wonders how the clash of theories and interpretations will work itself out.
Then, instead of concealing her mechanism, the author stresses it by using a silkily knowing narrator who chokes us with omniscience. The hero of "The Gold Coast" is Jim McPherson, a 27-year-old who hasn't really grown up. Life, which had been the most prosperous weekly in history, died of television and postal rates, although it was to be reborn as a monthly. The process is more interesting, really, than the ending, which, by the very nature of the genre, is happily assured. Among proponents of this esoteric but academically entrenched critical methodology, the Belgian-born Yale professor's influence was exceeded only by that of the movement's originator, Jacques Derrida. It is Chace and Carr's view, furthermore, that empire of any kind is a risky anachronism. Yet it is clear that the fact he was never claimed hurt for years.
But what also happened, as Israeli records show, is that thousands of Arabs were forcibly and sometimes violently expelled, both during and after the war, from areas originally assigned to Israel in the U N. KING SEASON by Kirby Wilkins (Arbor House: $14. 95. Undeterred by this and armed with Nader's near-fetish for researching every published detail about a subject he is interested in, the authors chose to proceed. A young woman, in shock after taking part in a bombing, tells the police who arrest her: "I wanted to see Ireland free but I said to myself, Jesus Christ, if you do it this way, how is all the wee folk to grow up" In the Irish Situation-islandwide once, and now zoned into the north, while the rest more or less gets on with the humdrum business of being a poorish member of the European Community-there is no comfort for those who believe in language and its ability to create and order our life. In any case, their differences are far less significant than their simultaneous emergence in the late 1980s. Instead, the authors take a more controversial tack, questioning the foundations of our legal system.
THE LEATHER THRONE by Owen Ulph (Dream Garden: $19. 95. Sandwiched between thick slices of illustrations is an assiduously detailed and plodding text. THE WORD: After a highly competitive auction, Catholic nun and popular TV personality Mother Angelica has signed with Harper & Row to do a book, "Mother Angelica's Answers Not Promises" scheduled for publication in winter 1987. Gilbert offers new information about the origins of the plan for "final solution; he gives the names of the first Jew who was killed in each community overrun by the Nazis; he puts faces and words to the incomprehensible numbers of the murdered. But this expression of relative importance in contemporary economics is authoritative. While Carter spoke out boldly for human rights, Fasulo writes, his Administration focused criticism on South Africa, Israel and Chile, to the exclusion of problems elsewhere Former U. N Ambassador Jeane J.
Benvenisti's closely reasoned argument, in essence, is this: Zionism has evolved into an ideology incapable of responding to changing realities. The best opportunities now lie elsewhere" And to seize those opportunities, Japan's banks and finance houses start with an edge its manufacturers did not have-what the authors term "a comparative advantage in a commodity even more important than oil: money"It was not so long ago-10 years at the most-that the giant American commercial banks, Citicorp, Chase Manhattan, Bank of America and others, spread their operations throughout the world and aroused fears that they would dominate global finance. Twenty stories make the final cut; the volume is valuable, too, for its index of also-rans, formally "100 Other Distinguished Short Stories of the Year" and where to find them. I frankly feel that every German has a right to take pride in Naziism, in the same way we Americans take pride in the Confederacy during our Civil War, without being labeled neo-Nazi" On the surface, of course, "Nazi Para-Military Organizations" is merely an annotated catalogue of pins and badges, a reference work of interest only to those who collect Nazi paraphernalia. He forces her to move her sleeping bag to the wall opposite him because he can't stand her near him and twists her arm when she doesn't do his bidding. Putnam's Sons, King described the author he had just discovered as "humane enough to capture our hearts and wicked enough to make us laugh our asses off" Of "Firewater Pond" King reported, "I laughed until I thought I was going to wet my pants.
"Like the cigarette, the sugar sucrose is a novelty of industrial civilization. Again it is only Lenzner who gives an account of Ann Getty's creation with British publisher Lord (George) Weidenfeld"Lord Big" as an article in the March issue of Vanity Fair calls him-of the Wheatland Translation Fund. Animal communication, human culture, literary theory, and exolinguistics all fall under semiotic investigation and reflection. The novel promises a happy ending from its very start, though, and it does not disappoint. Berger will not take sides; the Graves are buffoons, and the Finches are burlesques of blue-collar America Upper crust crumbles Lower caste collapses. The authors' questions serve more to display their own inside knowledge than they do to elicit answers. " Yet such sane moments are offset by implausible ones, such as when Maxi's blind brother (the Cordon Bleu chef) is attending a Broadway opening, recognizes an assassin's voice in the crowd and wrestles him to the ground before his gun goes off.