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WILDLIFE by Richard Ford (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A novel about a 16- year-old boy's coming of age in Montana during the 1960s, a time of oil boom and family disintegration, but also a time to begin understanding the world of grownups by observing their passions -- and mistakes...
...sports car in years has so quickly won the hearts of U.S. car buffs as Mazda's pert Miata MX-5. But Detroit automakers are not content to sit back and watch foreign roadsters whiz by. Next month Ford will begin selling its own cosmopolitan contender, the Mercury Capri. The car's body was designed in Italy, and its engine and chassis were developed jointly by Ford and Mazda. The Detroit automaker has a 25% stake in the Japanese company. The convertible, which will be built at a Ford plant near Melbourne, will be the first Australian-made car sold...
...banner headline in the local paper declared: SAVING SPOTTED OWL SEEN AS THREAT TO SCHOOLS. Douglas County may lose more than $13 million a year in timber revenue that the Federal Government returns to the county to help pay for public administration, roads and schools. At the local Ford dealership, the only owls that are welcomed are those made out of ceramic, which stand on the roofline warding off swallows intent on building nests under the eaves. Cars and trucks are not selling. Too much uncertainty. Says salesman Bruce Goetsch: "We survived without the dinosaur. What's the big deal...
This defense might as well rest; the prosecution has a watertight case. In fact, the imaginary charges against Scott Frederic Turow, 41, may not go far enough. They ignore, for example, the $20 million film version of Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford, which will be released this summer and will probably lure every Turow fan who is not still hiding from job and loved ones while reading The Burden of Proof...
Bush called in some of capitalism's and democracy's best "workers" and thinkers to show Gorbachev his enthusiasm and sincerity, which is what official entertaining has been about since John Adams opened up the house. The guests journeyed into Washington by corporate jet (Ford's chairman, Harold Poling) and Amtrak (Princeton's legendary Soviet expert George Kennan). Washington Post publisher Donald Graham could not get his car past the befuddled White House police, so he hoofed it up the sidewalk...