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Shaw is up to all these tricks in Misalliance, one of his wildly irrepressible comedies. The drawing room belongs to John Tarleton (Philip Bosco), a self-made millionaire. Tarleton is an omnivorous reader and an avid fox hunter of ideas...
...avid Space-Invaders player, and although I fortunately do not suffer from the painful wrist ailment you described, I do occasionally have another notorious illness, "Space-Invaders hand." The symptom is a painful stiffness centered on the top of the hand about an inch and a half from the knuckles. I believe that this is caused by the unnatural angle at which one must keep his hand to play the video game...
...nation's largest general aviation companies; of injuries received when he was struck by a car near his home; in Oak Brook, Ill. Butler, an expert pilot, founded Butler Aviation in 1946 to provide fuel and service for private aircraft in airports across the country. An avid sportsman, he once maintained 3,000 acres in Oak Brook, comprising an airstrip, riding stables, a golf course and 13 polo fields...
...Walk on the Wild Side (1956); of a heart attack; in Sag Harbor, N.Y. A 1931 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent a few years wandering through the South and Midwest, meeting the losers and misfits who would later inhabit his fiction. A tireless traveler and avid gambler, Algren was a genial loner who spoke in the language of his working-class roots. He once warned, "Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your...
...mystery has always surrounded Allen, as if no one is sure what he is going to do next, even if it is not likely to be too dramatic. An avid student of foreign affairs since his days at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his B.A. and M.A., Allen, 45, has frequently run into opposition because of his unyielding hostility to the Soviet Union. He joined the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 and was soon elevated to chief foreign policy adviser even though he was then only 32. After the election he joined Henry Kissinger...