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...with stories of how he, Fat Albert and friends careened their way around parental authority to enjoy the gooey fruits of childhood. Cosby, 48, has grown some since (and his audiences have grown even more). Right now his comic focus is on how adults survive having kids. Thus the blurb makers, with more cause than usual, have dubbed him "America's Favorite Father." And just in time for Father's Day, | by no marketing coincidence, Cosby is out with a spanking-new best seller that rollicks through his mostly tried and mostly true routines on being a parent...
...February 26, front page--29 column inches); for the article telling us about how some women were applying to be photographed (March 5, front page--57-and-a-half column inches); for the story on how the photographer was now leaving campus (March 8, front page blurb--13 column inches); the entire opinion/editorial page devoted to the magazine and its recruitment (March 8--80 column inches); and for yesterday's full-page inside scoop on the workings of the interview process, complete with sample appliction (March 10, front page blurb--84 column inches...
...blurb on the novel's jacket, the former CIA chief, Admiral Stansfield Turner, is quoted as saying, "(Clancy) makes you appreciate that decisions naval commanders on both sides may have to make in peacetime could lead the United States and the Soviet Union into war." Readers might well hope that the highly placed fans of The Hunt will keep the admiral's thought in mind...
Halfway through the first chapter of this new novel by the talented poet and novelist Marge Piercy, one wonders what use there is in continuing. Fly Away Home, we can tell from the blurb, will be the intense and anguished story of the breakup of a marriage, and the subsequent discovery by a warm but timid woman that there is a whole world open to her. It is a familiar story; even under Piercy's talented pen--she is known for Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives--what on earth could make it fresh...
...does Dan Rather mention the Iran-Iraq war almost parenthetically as the evening's fourth story--preceded by a Tab commercial--and only as a 20 second blurb? And why don't we find the horror stories of the battlefield massacres on the front page of The New York Times? Why is the story a short column on page A23, between a story on a municipal garbage strike and an ad for cheap shots...