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...sometime journalist who writes a terrific novel about Boston every year or so. About tough guys in Boston, that is. There may be, somewhere in the Hub area, a Higgins test range where the writer holds trials for admission to his casts of characters. Harvard degree? Reject Dukakis bumper sticker? So long, Faneuil Hall regular? Next Higgins's novels, you see, deal exclusively with a social set in this area that has neither the inclination nor the ability to be anything other than what it is--the royalty of a seedy commercial-political religious organized crime two-bit empire...
...spinoffs. Coleco Industries of Hartford, Conn., has come out with a battery-run table-top model, while Milton Bradley Co. will be offering a puzzle, a card game and a nonelectronic Pac-Man board game. In addition to a parade of toys, pajamas, lunch boxes and bumper stickers, there will be Hallmark cards and gift wrapping, Dan River sheets and pillowcases and J.C. Penney children's clothing. Says Midway Vice President Stanley Jarocki: "I think we have the Mickey Mouse of the 1980s...
...budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers with the hand gesturing thumbs up, sport on their fenders "Barry Locke Made It" seals depicting a fistful of money...
Austin, Texas is a town where about nine of the 40,000 University of Texas students drive Volkswagens with Kennedy bumper stickers. Everyone else drives big cars very quickly. But I was only going 15 miles an hour when I wrecked my Texas friends' 1957 Chevy...
...over the weekend, I dreamt of Sixth Avenue, where the pushcarts are bumper to bumper for 10 long blocks--both sides of the street--and I smelled beef charbroiling and batter deep-frying and fruit squirting and ice-cream melting, and I saw that it was really, really good...