Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passionate, headstrong beauty from the South who struggles to save the family estate and falls for a dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
...must now compete with newfangled lawyers and adoption consultants. Sometimes, as with Nicole, the groundwork is laid by an organization with a radical new approach known as "cooperative adoption." Most of the participants have a standard, emphatic defense for the various practices they promote: we are doing what is best for the child. With all that proclaimed selflessness, how can there still be so many problems...
...actually knows how many babies are adopted in the U.S. each year. The Federal Government stopped keeping track in 1975, though it promises to start counting again by 1991. The best estimate -- from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped...
...LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...
PETE TOWNSHEND: IRONMAN (Atlantic). A fabulistic -- if not fully fabulous -- rock musical, based on an allegory by poet Ted Hughes. The album may lack Tommy's delirium, but at its erratic best it has more soul...