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...those who crave book-hunting adventures and are not disposed to claustrophobia, there are several used book specialists with popular and obscure titles. Aisles are narrow here, but lighting at McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.) is enough to allow reading. Fairly academic volumes line the shelves and it sports large literary criticism, philosphy and medieval history sections. Across the street is the Starr BookShop (29 Plympton St.) nestled in the east end of the Lampoon castle. It's got two floors of mostly scholarly and classical texts...
Celebrities generally crave publicity, but not in this case. Said Cavett: "I just came back from Japan, and I much prefer taking a bath in public their way. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing." Other well-known investors were not talking about their tax-shelter troubles, but a clue to Jong's possible feelings can be found in a scene from her latest novel, Parachutes and Kisses, which is some what autobiographical. The book's central character, Isadora Wing, learns from her accountant that...
...Press. She fought incessantly with her husband, but Barry does his best to dance around these scenes. "Everyone at the Palace was worried that the fairy tale romance was going to collapse," he admits, but ultimately he tells little of specific quarrels-the type of gossip that Royal watches crave...
...random lottery will not only fail to solve the fundamental problem, that concerning the Quad Houses, but it will also drain the Houses of much of their existing character. The diversity the pro-random forces so crave is already here, just not at every dinner table. Letting people choose where they want to live makes residential dorms not just houses but homes...
...than they are - not only better paid or better clothed, but better. Not merely passive recipients of favors from the governmental All-Daddy, or, on the other side, shrewd looters cooking the books and snickering through the loopholes. The potential idealists inhabit the middle between those two caricatures. They crave material wellbeing, certainly. But they also want to be, saying it plainly, active participants in the larger enterprise of their nation. They want to do some good, to make changes. The candidates who stir this energy will have discovered fire. Mondale and Ferraro may not be able to do that...