Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself, raising the $3,500 cost from friends. "I thought it had some modest virtues and might even sell 2,500 copies." To date, worldwide sales are about half a million. The book has been translated into eight languages and has gone through eleven printings in the U.S. since Bantam Books bought the rights twelve years...
...have been flops. Then is the answer just Freddy, the perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture him as a wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare films are more than a Freddy phenomenon. With sharp...
Simon's swift-paced and snappily told tale cannot compare, however, with Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater (Bantam; 627 pages; $19.95), a sprawling yet spellbinding plunge into Jerusalem's ethnic, religious and social cauldron. Kellerman, a clinical psychologist whose previous books have featured a psychologist as detective, turns here to tracking the emotional evolution of a serial killer and the creation of a multiethnic police team to catch him before his savagery destroys the fragile equilibrium among Jews, Arabs and Christians. The mawkishly melodramatic finale is Kellerman's only miscalculation in a vivid, fascinating tale...
...Texas Tory and the Brookline Bantam make a sitcom-like odd couple. Bentsen is more Bush's twin than Dukakis'. Bentsen supports the contras; Dukakis reviles them. Dukakis mocks the policies of Reaganomics; Bentsen backed them. Bentsen boosts new missiles; Dukakis denigrates them...
...Crimson, seeded first in the Regatta, cruised over the 2000-meter course on Harsha Lake in Bantam, Ohio, in 5:36.39, finishing more than a full second ahead of the second-seeded Huskies...