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...editors, writers and correspondents who contributed to this week's story, only a few confessed to back problems. Medicine Writer Anastasia Toufexis, who wrote the story, and Adrianne Jucius, the reporter-researcher who assisted her, approached the subject with pain-free objectivity. All of those involved, whether they count themselves among the afflicted or not, gained useful insights into the physiology-and the psychology-of aching backs...
...Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses, it could still be entered as best of breed, for Barich often seems to enter the souls of touts, breeders and even the animals themselves. But the book is far more. Like its predecessors, A Fan's Notes...
...dozen or so dark-skinned natives who appear only once, for about 40 seconds. Despite living on the same island for a dozen years, the two groups have managed to avoid each other. Determined to make their screen time count, the natives bob and weave around a campfire like so many loinclothed Travoltas and then sacrifice one their number to a hook-nosed Easter Island statue...
...twelve-count indictment names Davidson, Roemer and Marinello as well as Marcello; Fitzmorris was not indicted, though he is still under investigation. The former Lieutenant Governor admitted meeting with Marcello but denied discussing state contracts, and described their conversation as "frivolous...
...noon." Present European attitudes and policies are not designed to help bring about an American resurgence. On the contrary: they can only help thrust America back upon itself and thus ultimately hurt Europe. If, through arrogance or fear or misjudgment, Europe's leaders were to count America out too soon, they would not be readily forgiven in the U.S. - nor, perhaps ultimately, in their own countries. &$151;By Henry Grunwald