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...Halfway through the first chapter of this new novel by the talented poet and novelist Marge Piercy, one wonders what use there is in continuing. Fly Away Home, we can tell from the blurb, will be the intense and anguished story of the breakup of a marriage, and the subsequent discovery by a warm but timid woman that there is a whole world open to her. It is a familiar story; even under Piercy's talented pen--she is known for Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives--what on earth could make it fresh...
Government borrowing must increase because under most projections the deficit will continue to go up. Recalculating the figures after last week's tax changes and spending cuts, and assuming a roughly halfway compromise on military outlays, congressional budgeteers now predict $174.2 billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...
...grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind of halfway house" to heaven. Mamma has access to a TV set on which she can call up any scene she wishes from her past life;in keeping with the restful atmosphere, an attending angel of mercy wears a nurse's hat just like the ones on General Hospital...
Once again those "little cable cars" were "climbing halfway to the stars." So one star came the other half of the way to meet them, celebrating the cars' reappearance after a two-year, $60 million restoration job. Tony Bennett, 57, his heart still in his throat, on his sleeve and in San Francisco simultaneously, helped Mayor Dianne Feinstein, 51, lead a city wide festival marking the official reopening of the system. "One of the great treats in life is to ride on a cable car," burbled Bennett. "The whole world has been waiting for this day." As church bells...
...Soviets have from the outset shown signs of being willing to improve on what the Joint Chiefs called SALT IIs "modest but useful" regulation of the strategic arms race, but they have yet to see an American proposal that meets them halfway. What would be required is nothing less than a whole new American START negotiating position, one that offers more in the way of genuine concessions on cruise missiles and demands less in the way of drastic reductions in the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The best alternative to surface so far is the State Department's framework approach...