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...Forty-First Thief by Edward A. Pollitz Jr. (Delacorte; $8.95) is a perfect book for someone stranded at an airport by a delayed flight. It is well enough written to hold boredom temporarily at bay but so trivial that if left behind at O'Hare Airport, one would be less disturbed than if one had misplaced a book of matches. The author's fancy here is that an eccentric inventor, working in secrecy at St.-Tropez, is on the point of perfecting a solar-powered car. The Arabs are out to stop him before he sells his process...
...different kind of fantasy she's offering, a dream of acquisition and her next song, "Explain It," never goes beyond that same surface of acquiring a cosmopolitan experience; all it says is that it's hare to explain to old friends "About the people and places you're learnin...
...hear more. When she does add more lines her music seems to deteriorate. "Spring is Here" demonstrates her abilities on the dulcimer, but the line, "I know that God must be smilin" 'is just too much to hear nine times in a single song; it sounds like a mispronounced Hare Krishna chant. Both "Secret" and "Listen to Your Own Heart" are extended bitches with appropriately annoying bass rhythms that pound the songs into the ground. "Wild Bird" is the only decent cut on the second side...
...this mountain of cultural prejudice, Janet Barkas has planted The Vegetable Passion, a monomaniacal history of herbivores from Neanderthal man to the Hare Krishna people. Between her gargoyle book ends, this vegetarian convert presents a series of case histories. Each serves to dispel the notion that vegetable dieters are as alike as peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi...
...thousands of carefully supervised miles, from bustling Canton to the Yenan, where Mao and the revolution began their own comeback saga. "I found my self thinking with such broad strokes in China," writes MacLaine. This turns out to be one of the understatements of 4763, the Year of the Hare. She enthusiastically quotes official statistics, re ports having seen only happy Chinese faces, and announces the arrival of the "new man," free of competitive greed...