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BODYWATCHING by Desmond Morris Crown; 256 pages...
...MAMMOTH HUNTERS by Jean M. Auel Crown; 645 pages...
...formal consulting voice in the governing of Northern Ireland. After the tally was announced, the Rev. Ian Paisley, a militant Protestant leader, shouted, "Ulster forever!" The next day, Paisley and fellow Democratic Unionist M.P. Peter Robinson tendered their resignations in the Commons' traditional fashion by applying for nominal Crown jobs, which would bar them from House membership. Their 13 Ulster Unionist colleagues vowed to follow suit...
...downside of being an actor is that you can't act until somebody hires you," complains Patti Davis. So the President's daughter decided to become her own boss by turning writer. The result is Home Front (Crown; $15.95), to be published in March, a reflective novel about a 1960s college student who defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction...
...Mulroney's problem is that he raised high expectations. A mellifluous speaker and charismatic campaigner, he convinced Canadians that some painful belt tightening would eventually improve an economy plagued by double-digit unemployment and a rapidly rising deficit. He also promised to sell off unprofitable government-owned businesses or crown corporations. But Mulroney's performance has not matched his rhetoric, and his government has been characterized by indecision and some easily avoidable scandals...