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...this woman has quite a few toys to clear out of her attic. Either that, or she should audition for "Saturday Night," where she could replace other Harvard alums like Al Franken and Jim Downey, who don't seem to be able to write more than one good show a month...
...volume, priced at a modest $60, contains more than 13,000 new and often exotic words, or new meanings for old words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie...
...extraordinary present, for sure. The Smithsonian, otherwise known as "the nation's attic," has created a paean to the daring imaginations of the Wright brothers, Goddard, Lindbergh, Rickenbacker, Sikorsky, Earhart, Douglas and Lockheed's Johnson. The scene stealers are located in three giant bays (each 124 ft. by 115 ft. by 62 ft. high). In the main entrance bay-the Milestones of Flight Gallery-are the Wrights' Kitty Hawk Flyer, the first aircraft to achieve manned, powered flight, and the Spirit of St. Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh, need anyone be reminded, flew the Atlantic solo...
...when he unlocks the door, she refuses to come out. The battle of frosty New England worlds is on. Despite the pleas of her niece, old friends and even a Mexican priest who happens around, Sally settles down for a long standoff, comforted by two resources: apples in the attic and a torn old paperback...
...party for signs of concupiscence. Chicago Tribune Columnist Michael Kilian examines Carter's statements on tax reform and concludes: "I'd much rather have Jimmy look with lust upon my wife than upon my wallet." Cartoonist Pat Oliphant recently drew Carter hiding among peanut sacks in the attic while Rosalynn went after him with a shotgun. "Jimmy Carter's campaign slogan is 'The White House or Bust,' " says Bob Hope. "Trouble is, he's not sure which he wants...