Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program, sanctioned by authorities in 26 states, works like this: when shoplifters are caught, the store manager may or may not have them arrested, depending on whether they seem like professional criminals or occasional lipstick lifters. In the latter case, the store lets them go after verifying their names and addresses. In about a week the shoplifters receive letters demanding payment. If they refuse, Eckerd takes the case to small-claims court. Most have been paying...
...fashioned "butterfly route" in biology. He nonetheless rocketed up the academic ladder at Syracuse and | then Stanford, where he became provost in 1979. En route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Jimmy Carter. In the latter role, he was a strong public-interest spokesman, opposing use of ozone-damaging fluorocarbon sprays and favoring regulation of such cancer-linked substances as saccharin and sodium nitrate...
Wichman cheers up considerably after Hitech makes mincemeat of two more players: an inventory manager for a Racine, Wis., restaurant and a university student from South Bend, Ind. The latter winces as an unfeeling observer calls out, "You didn't let the machine beatcha, did ya?" Contestant Daniel Kamen, an Arlington Heights, Ill., chiropractor, is considerably more empathetic. "It's a monster! You can't blow smoke in its face," he complains. "It doesn't care if you're obnoxious or if you have bad breath. You just can't rattle it. I wouldn't want to play Hitech...
...First, the effort to persuade Mantegna's character to believe in the book takes place almost entirely offstage. Second, right up to the end it is impossible to tell whether the book is brilliance or bilge. If it is the former, then the ending is uncommercially tragic. If the latter, then the ending is a foregone conclusion and, however brief, takes too long in coming...
...beautiful, of course. "People notice one's association with Claudia," observes one of her lovers, a multimillionaire entrepreneur. "Men are envious -- women are impressed." Claudia is also formidable. Her only child Lisa cowers in the knowledge that she is too "pallid" to be a worthy offspring of this latter-day Artemis. Lisa's husband is understandably terrified of his mother-in-law too. "Damp handshake, damp opinions," sighs Claudia with a snob's sere accuracy. "At the very sight of me his vowels falter...