Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annotation to the text, Reagan repeatedly asserts that the speeches in the book flew forth from his own inspired pen. In some cases, this is evidently true. It is in these speeches that we find the unforgettable gaffes such as "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night...They were all on a diet...
...years ago, I would have revelled in smug liberal elitism and written a review that painted Reagan and everyone who voted for him as consummate fools. I would have also missed the most important part of Reagan's book...
SOME CAN WHISTLE by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). Some of McMurtry's good books, like Terms of Endearment, have been turned into good movies. Alas, this novel, about a feckless millionaire TV writer discovering his daughter from a long-ago marriage, is not a good book. Wait for the inevitable screen adaptation...
...clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...
...customer at Politics & Prose, a busy bookstore in Chevy Chase, Md., is mightily perplexed. There is this book, she tells the manager, something about the impending economic disaster, written by a Chinese. At most chain bookstores, the personnel might be equally baffled. But the staffer at Politics & Prose thinks for a moment, and then, from among the shop's 20,000 titles, quickly produces a copy of The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra -- not a Chinese, to be sure, but the right book nonetheless. Sold...