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He failed to explain the cuts on his hand or the blood in his Bronco, and said he had never struck or beaten Nicole Simpson.
In Newsweek , Dan Quayle derides Al Gore's recent praise for Ellen : "By paying homage both to Hollywood and to the gay lobby, Al Gore has beaten his rivals to the cash machine."
Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.
In the 1920s, he bought banks in New York to establish a beachhead, but he was beaten back, in a three-decade struggle, by banking laws, regulators, and in-house perfidy.
A novel that sells 200 copies a week for 10 years will never appear on the lists, because each week it will be beaten by faster-selling books.