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...American Library), Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen (Morrow) and Joan Nathan's An American Folklife Cookbook (Schocken). The most impassioned paean to Momma cooking is Jane and Michael Stern's Square Meals (Knopf). In their march down memory lane, the authors celebrate dishes from what many people rightfully consider the Dark Ages of American eating: tuna casseroles sauced with canned mushroom soup, Back-to-Bataan Spam and patently disgusting creations like a cabbage-apple-and-pickle salad with evaporated-milk dressing. The Sterns, who write several columns and report their findings regularly on the CBS Morning News, also offer better choices...
...uninfected security guard most imperiled by these creatures. She may be scared, but never out of her wits. Jeffrey De Munn nicely underplays the independent scientist trying to set things to rights. The rest of the cast is not as strong, but Barwood effectively hurtles the action down its dark and twisting course. THE BRIDE...
...horizon in November, the hyping of Halley's is once again in full swing. At last count, 80 companies around the country were selling tens of thousands of items related to the celestial itinerant. Enterprising pitchmen are hawking comet coins, medals, travel bags, pendants, posters, glow-in-the-dark pencils, hair glitter and, in playful memory of visitations past, yogurt-flavored comet pills. More than three dozen books on Halley's compete for attention. Consumers can choose among Halley's T shirts, emblazoned with slogans such as "I'm just like Halley's Comet, a once-in-a-lifetime experience...
...been when he had written that, yet reject his right to excise a word. His own wife was "a pathetic little wren," though at another time she was his "treasure girl with a heart of gold," but then again she was "homely as a stump fence built in the dark...
Having failed to remove the overwhelming obstacle presented by Star Wars, the two superpower leaders donned their coats and climbed back up the hill to rejoin their retinues. The mood of the two men had become as dark as the chilled evening, but Reagan was determined to end the day on an upbeat note. "I think we agree," he said as they came to the parking lot, "that this meeting is useful." Yes, replied Gorbachev. Then we must meet again, Reagan went on. It was then that he invited the Kremlin leader to come to the U.S. "And I invite...