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...youth who stalks an actress. Inside was an unmailed postcard with portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan on one side. On the reverse was a bizarre message to Actress Jodie Foster, 19, with whom Hinckley was infatuated: "Dear Jodie, Don't they make a darling couple? Nancy is downright sexy. One day you and I will occupy the White House and the peasants will drool with envy. Until then, please do your best to remain a virgin. You are a virgin, aren't you? Love, John...
...professional imperfections. In Washington's atmosphere of political intrigue, most high CIA officials develop more enemies than friends. But when the White House last week announced Inman's impending retirement from both the CIA and the Navy, the praise for the four-star admiral was downright gushy. Democratic Congressman Edward P. Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called Inman "the nation's finest professional intelligence officer." Democratic Senator Joseph Biden even called Inman "the single most competent man in the Federal Government...
...audience is uncertain, publishers are downright frantic. Only yesterday they could count on six-and seven-figure sales to paperback houses and thereby raise needed operating capital, fund new ventures and enrich writers' wallets. But Fat City is rapidly becoming as legendary as the Land of Oz. According to New York Publishing Consultant Leonard Shatzkin, author of the forthcoming analysis of U.S. publishing, In Cold Type, the times get leaner by the month: 1977 paperback-reprint rights, for example, "contributed approximately 60% of total subsidiary-rights income to publishers. That went down...
...distort the audience's expectations in the evening's second play, Bonnie Salomon's Who's the Fool Now? which takes its inspiration from the true story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...
...Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...