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Attorney General Health Report Talking to Wolf Blitzer in the Late Edition studios, Janet Reno shows the ravages of her Parkinson's Disease.
It "might have been more honestly called Hilly Buttocks I Have Known ," says James Wolcott in the Wall Street Journal . Those who don't dismiss it as salacious gossip laud its revelations about gay New York writers, especially the poet James Merrill, and its depiction of the ravages of AIDS.
Not until a 20th-century Western architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, arrived in Tokyo to build the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel was it considered possible — let alone desirable — to attempt to defy the ravages of nature.
An active government cultural policy in recent years has preserved the architectural monuments of the “national patrimony” from the ravages of time, weather, war, revolution, and urban development.
"She's like a naturalist at a tide pool, but instead of examining shrimp and sand crabs, she tracks loss, entropy and the ravages of aging," says Laurie Stone in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Elizabeth Frank says that Hecht writes some of the "freshest and loveliest colloquial speech to grace American fiction in a long time."