Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIFE AT THE DAKOTA: NEW YORK'S MOST PECULIAR ADDRESS by Stephen Birmingham Random House; 241 pages...
...Culdrose and Plymouth, where survivors were treated or dispatched to hospitals, battered yachtsmen gave firsthand accounts of suffering and sorrow. Alan Bartlett, skipper of the British Trophy, recounted that his boat's life raft tore apart like tissue: "It was horrific to watch as men dropped into the sea, drifted away and drowned. They were my friends...
...consequence. After causing this injustice, the woman "shrugged her shoulders, got into the bed ... blew out the lamp, listened for a few minutes to the night sounds, and went peacefully to sleep, thinking of how surprisingly little time it had taken her to get used to life at Paso Rojo, and even, she had to admit now, to begin to enjoy it." Bowles' irony passes by like a night chill. The woman is not "getting used to" life at the ranch but perverting...
...Rosemary's Baby is likely to forget the fortress that housed the satanic gathering. In real life, however, the forbidding turrets and gables guard one of the oldest, ritziest and most famous apartment buildings in Manhattan. It is the Dakota, behind whose 2-ft. -thick brick walls live such celebrities as Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who own some 28 rooms throughout the Dakota and who once held a séance to commune with departed tenants. Other famous occupants have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday and Boris Karloff, plus several purported house ghosts...
...about the war in the past 18 months, 15 of them at a single pop last March, and all as part of an ambitious plan to put both new and old accounts of the war on the racks continually and indefinitely. Reflecting the same market mood, subscriptions to TIME-LIFE Books' series of 20 World War II volumes have passed 780,000 and are still coming in. Meanwhile, a mere list of already available books on the war fills up a dozen type-crammed pages of Books in Print. In light of it all, it is no surprise that...