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...roots of the urban experience are exposed in Flossie and the Fox (Dial; $10.89). Patricia C. McKissack's comedy of a girl who has to get a passel of eggs past a predator recalls Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories. "See," says the fox, "I have thick, luxurious fur. Feel for yourself." Returns Flossie, "Ummm. Feels like rabbit fur to me . . . You aine no fox. You a rabbit, all the time trying to fool me." The fox spends so much time trying to convince Flossie that he is nearly undone by a dog, allowing the child to escape with...
Minitel is not all digitized gossip. Farmers use it to track weather reports and commodity prices. Pharmacists order drugs, investors check stock portfolios, and real estate agents post listings. Collectors sell antique furniture, rare coins and secondhand fur coats. Jacques Toubon, leader of Premier Jacques Chirac's Rassemblement pour la Republique party, invited voters last August to pose questions to him via Minitel and drew thousands of responses...
...Fur pajamas...
...late afternoon of the next day when Andrei suddenly appeared in the doorway, in his fur hat and jacket, which seemed too big for him. A very thin, small face, all gray. He did not even kiss me, but said, "What's happening...
...Members of the faculty have wondered if thereis a puckish predilection for making the fur fly,"Bate wrote. Ad hoc committee members sometimes usetenure reviews as a chance to take revenge onprofessional rivals or "to take a shot atHarvard," Bate said...