Word: alan
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...ranging from $6.50 to $7.50 plus $1.75 mailing charge for a 30-day period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors or their estates 10% of its rental fee and calls its service, not immodestly, "the thinking...
...owners of the 2,000 stores that were.plundered, Thursday was a day of reckoning their losses. It was a day of sweeping up debris, nailing plywood across jagged, broken windows and pondering whether to reopen. Alan Rubin, owner of the Radio Clinic discount center on Manhattan's upper West Side, told a reporter: "I'm responsible for 25 families?the families of the people who work for me. What's going to happen to them if I pull out? As bad as I got hit, there are other guys who got wiped out. What's going to happen if they...
...Judge Alan King-Hamilton, 72, refused to permit the defense to provide professional testimony on the merit of the poem or its author, a professor of literature and winner of numerous prizes, among them the Rockefeller Foundation's Atlantic Award. The judge did permit Drama Critic Bernard Levin of the Sunday Times and Novelist Margaret Drabble (The Realms of Gold) to testify as character witnesses. This led to some odd exchanges about Gay News-e.g., its publication of pictures from a sex manual for homosexuals...
ABSENT FRIENDS by ALAN AYCKBOURN...
...playwright than to be obsessed. With Eugene O'Neill, it is the isolated torment of the soul's loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...