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...monthly; at one point it was split into four separate magazines. Over the years it shifted focus from books to popular culture to politics and science and then, in its last incarnation, back to culture again. It built circulation from a few thousand shortly after its birth to a height of 660,000 in 1971; but since then it has repeatedly tried to shake off a doggedly loyal readership that an owner once dismissively described as "somebody's aunts," in order to improve its demographics and attract new advertising. Through all the changes of editorial focus, Saturday Review...
Says the 5-ft. 10½-in. Mariel, who played a budding track star in the movie Person al Best: "My height puts me really out there, so I exercise as much as possible...
...according to U.N. health officials. People had little choice but to drink it anyway. Fresh fruit and vegetables were no longer available, flour was in short supply, and lines formed at dawn outside shops that were lucky enough to have any bread to sell. The siege came at the height of the torrid Mediterranean summer, increasing the general distress. When available at all, a $3 case of bottled water was selling for $10. The Palestinian guerrillas were less affected by the food shortage than the general population because they had built up their own supplies...
...what has become almost a tradition in Western Europe, the bad news was presented to the public at the height of the summer vacation season in order to lessen the immediate outcry of national pain. With millions of his countrymen at the beaches and in the mountains, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini proclaimed a stringent austerity package, describing the proposals as being of "historic proportions." They were indeed, but they also contained political dynamite with an unexpectedly short fuse. Only five days after the big economic squeeze was announced, seven Socialist ministers resigned from Spadolini's 28-member Cabinet...
...accepted as the unofficial frontier to wealth. To be "a $10,000-a-year man" was synonymous with membership in the upper middle class. That was what the S.M.A.P.'S father had earned as a professor at Harvard, and when the S.M.A.P. was young he considered it the height of vaulting ambition to earn as much. Some day, when he too made $10,000 a year, he would be able to consider himself a success...