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Before you wait on the corner for Kenny's truck or call Lory to place a phone order, there are a few things to keep in mind. The record company, busy turning out some 1.7 million copies, has kept the lid on tight, so very little has been known about Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 until now. It is a 40-song live set, spanning the past decade in the performing life of America's greatest rocker and the country's hottest band: that rumor is right. It wholesales for about $19: right again...
...when Cadillac engaged the venerated Pininfarina firm, best known for its Ferrari body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near Turin, not far from the Italian Alps, then ships them to Detroit aboard 747 jumbo-jet freighters for outfitting with a high-performance GM engine and transmission...
...year-old boy is attacked by a playmate wielding a toy rake. The child retaliates with a toy hoe, hacking his assailant to death. Nearly a half-century later, while seeing his son off to summer camp, the killer, grown to uneasy manhood, is accidentally hit with the lid of a taxi trunk; he bleeds profusely, and for a few minutes believes he is dying. These ) events merge in his mind with TV-news footage of prison violence in Peru: guards shooting inmates who are in the midst of stabbing one another. All these images commingle with recollections of passive...
...usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows last summer with an evenhanded treatment of the loss of virginity, calling it "not a good thing, but it is not necessarily an irredeemably bad thing." And like other countries, China is learning that courses and books aimed at keeping the lid on sexual activity help feed it. Young women are now reading Girls, Be Vigilant! for tips on the erotic life...
...Social Christian Party. Echoing that feeling was Luis Rivas Leiva, secretary- general of the Social Democratic Party. Said he: "We are always evading restrictions. We have to use our imagination to evade these limits." Rivas discounts Ortega's claims that opposition activities are coordinated. Ortega may have dropped a lid on domestic unrest, but the move is not likely to help his attempts to win respect for the government abroad. This week he was to address the U.N. in Manhattan and possibly accept some invitations to speak around the U.S. The leader of the Sandinista revolution is likely to face...