Word: john
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others are not so sure. "In this business, if the production goes up, the price goes down," complains John Zonneveld, a dairy farmer in Laton, Calif. "The only guy who's going to gain from BST is the guy who manufactures the stuff...
...RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre; Knopf; 353 pages...
Under interrogation, quite a few members of John le Carre's vast and devoted reading public might confess a gnawing secret: the wish that the author would get on with his stories a bit more speedily than he has been doing for the past 15 or so years. Ever since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), in this view, Le Carre has been unduly shifting emphasis from action to atmospherics; his espionage plots remained splendidly inventive, but they arrived splintered into ambiguities worthy of Henry James. Which was fine, maybe, for those who wanted their cold war shenanigans decked...
...addition, one drawing depicts how the site would look if Harvard transformed it into a 30,000-square-foot public park. Although University officials expressed skepticism when the notion of a park was proposed, Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association Chair John R. Pitkin said he considered his organization's proposal a viable option for the site...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Denise Worrell