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...subjects lend themselves well to video teaching. An amateur chef watching a cooking tape--like Wok Before You Run, with Chinese Chef Stephen Yan as host--can see, and not just read, what his concoction is supposed to look like. The World's Greatest Photography Course, presented by Photographer Lief Ericksenn, uses lucid narration and lots of visual examples to demonstrate, not just how to pick a proper f-stop or choose a lens, but subtler matters such as how to recognize a good picture and how to compose one. How to Watch Pro Football, produced by the National Football...
When Advertising Executive Todd Lief, 47, gave up his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit a few years ago, he put aside his tobacco money to buy an Apple computer. His wife Jo, 44, a Chicago family therapist, supported the idea. At least at first. Then she discovered that computers, like cigarettes, can be habit forming. "He really got into it," she says. "After a while, I felt angry-abandoned. On a sunny, beautiful day he would sit at the computer for eight hours straight...
...retaliatory entry in the cat-book sweepstakes quickly appeared from bottom-line think tankers. A new entry which has a claw-hold on the bestseller lists is Cat's Revenge: More than 101 Uses for Dead People. It is the product of Philip Lief, 36. A book packager and author who lives with his wife and cat in Southfield, Mass. He presents human corpses-and parts thereof-that serve gleeful felines as life rafts, bowling balls and stamp-licking machines. His next attempt to amuse in the cat-dollar sweepstakes will appear in March, Cat's Revenge...
...hurting? Evidently it is a minority of farmers who unwisely took on onerous debts in the mid-1970s to buy costly new acreage in the be lief that prices for farm land would continue to soar. The typical farmer, who has a modest 170 in debt for every dollar in assets, has no need to raise Cain in Washington...
...Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like the devoted Catholic he is. He feels his be lief so convincingly that it seems to us that this is the right way to play...