Word: california
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...Album is Didion's latest collection of these images--20 essays written from 1968 to 1978. It is a brilliant albeit occasionally disjointed collage of impressions, written with her customary journalistic eye for detail and infused with emotion. The essays discuss the '60s, portray Didion and others, and sketch California life with wit and deadly accuracy...
...Vegas oddsmaker made his own odds for the fall. "I'm giving 50-to-1 that it will land in Massachusetts. And New York and California are both set at 35-to-1," Jackie Gaughan of the EI Cortez Hotel said yesterday. "One man bet $500 on Wisconsin at 40-to-1. I'm predicting that on July 11 at 11 a.m. EDT, it will hit the Pacific Ocean...
...strains in Moonraker to take us to locations heretofore untouched by his vacation-spot-hungry camera crews, and if the final scene is any indication of the length of Broccoli's list of locations, then it's just about used up. While searching for the missing shuttle, Bond visits California, Venice, Rio, a lush but foe-infested South American river, and finally, several hundred miles up in Earth orbit...
...distribution of millionaires around the country is uneven and sometimes surprising. As might be expected, the largest numbers are in the key business centers-New York (about 51,000), California (33,500) and Illinois (31,100). In terms of density, the millionaire population averages out to 2.36 of every 1,000 people over all the 50 states and territories...
Novelist Flanagan, 56, is a longtime English professor (University of California, State University of New York) who has spent much of his spare time over the past two decades in Ireland. He is an unabashed Mayo chauvinist, and his lyric affection for the land and the people animates his characters. Even the Rev. Mr. Broome drops his scholarly tone to write how Irish music "would come to us with the sadness of a lost world, each note a messenger sent wandering among the Waterford goblets." Yet the author is too honest a historian to let sympathy alter circumstances. The first...