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Solon Sadoway, 11, has never been to school, and displays not a whit of curiosity about the place. He is a car buff who most days pores over auto magazines at home in Lenox, Mass. Solon taught himself to read last year ("I really don't quite remember how," he muses) and learned basic arithmetic by handling the cash register at his parents' health-food store...
...Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills on himself, like the lace around...
Then last week came the murder of 22-year-old Brian Watkins, an avid tennis buff from Provo, Utah, on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan. Over the years, his family frequently made a pilgrimage to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. En route to dinner at Tavern on the Green, a popular tourist attraction, the family was attacked by a group of eight black and Hispanic youths. After one of the gang cut open his father's pocket to get at his money and punched his mother in the face, Brian jumped to his parents' defense...
BILL COSBY: WHERE YOU LAY YOUR HEAD (Verve). Jazz buff and drummer manque, the Cos directs an assortment of talented sidemen in five numbers written by Cosby and his longtime musical collaborator, Stu Gardner. The material is mainstream, mostly danceable, occasionally overcalculated -- sounding more like a jazz score than the real thing. This is the first in a projected series of Cosby-produced jazz recordings. Give the man B for a good beginning...
...traded in his old technical pens for the zip and click of an electronic mouse and a computer screen. To create or alter an illustration or to add color, he simply taps commands into the keyboards of his sophisticated Macintosh and IBM machines. Says Lertola, a science-fiction buff: "With so many computers, I sometimes feel as if I'm operating a spaceship...