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...since 1980. Throughout the industry, sales have tripled, bringing a touch of cheer to the financially ailing book trade. Y.A. are even available in lightly spiced series, such as Wildfire (Scholastic) and Sweet Dreams (Bantam), that feature adolescent romances like Saturday Night Date and I've Got a Crush on You. Many heroines in these confections never get to the first kiss. For boys there are thrillers like Your Code Name Is Jonah in Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure series. These are not traditional adventure narratives. Like Dungeons and Dragons, they allow teen and preteen readers...
...seems that Actor Christopher Atkins, 21 (The Blue Lagoon), has reached that difficult age: no longer a teen crush but not yet an adult lead. He does have a new flick (The Pirate Movie), and following the well-trampled path of bubble-gum idols before him, he has cut some wax before he wanes: his first record, How Can I Live Without Her, is currently No. 89 on the charts. But there was still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python...
...attacks came by air, land and sea. Relentlessly, day after day, Israeli forces rained destruction on Lebanon in their determined drive to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization and oust Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers...
...Israeli onslaught?in effect a blitz?was interrupted at week's end by an uneasy ceasefire. By then at least 60,000 troops, led by more than 500 tanks, had swept across the 63-mile-long Lebanese border, then snaked steadily north on tortuous dirt roads. Their goal: to crush the strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...always wanted to be a saint," McNaught said, "but I also had a crush on Tarzan, and I was very confused...