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OSCAR DE MEJO'S ABC (HarperCollins; $17). Year after year, the alphabet book is reinterpreted for new readers. This year's freshest version is a series of 26 deceptively simple paintings that celebrate scenes of Americana. B is for the Boston Tea Party; J is for Jazz; P is for Patrick Henry; S is for the Statue of Liberty; U is for Umpire. And X? That stands for Xmas, of course. May yours be merry and bright...
MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...
...reply that I have just spent $80,012 to sit in row PP. Not only is that all the way through the alphabet--it's two-thirds the way through it all over again...
...hard letter to find. It's right after V and right before X in the alphabet...
...Building 11, the dingy former headquarters of Eastern Airlines at Miami International Airport, an alphabet soup of federal and state agencies went to work coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. EOC on Floor 2, FEMA on 3, JTF on 4. CAP, COE, DNR, DER, SBA, GSA, even the ubiquitous IRS. In the hallways, Army Rangers in combat camouflage crossed paths with Army engineers in red shirts, sleepy-eyed state emergency officials in rumpled clothes and even Marilyn Quayle in Bermuda shorts and a ponytail...