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...children's store complements WordsWorth Books, a more main-stream store a few steps away down Brattle Street...
Beyond the dread Addenda, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries (1,500 of them updated), with etymologies aplenty, regional variations and usage guides. A selection of well-known names, places and events is even catalogued handily in the main text. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English language is getting a severe dumbing down. That term, oddly enough, is not to be found in these pages. --By Jesse Birnbaum
Actress Liv Tyler is no doubt attractive, even talented [CINEMA, June 17]. She may be the new Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn, but right now her main claim to fame seems to be her "matter-of-fact ease with her sensuality." Famous actors like Kathy Bates, for example, or even Leslie Nielsen appear to be at ease with their sensuality. This is pointless, and as interesting as reading about the "quiet sexuality" of a turtle. RUTH SMETHERS Olathe, Kansas...
According to the co-chairs, the main problem the conference addressed was how to encourage trade in the Middle East while maintaining Israel's security...
...this moment our star is in a plane over New York City. He needs to reach his main witness (Williams) before some malevolent brutes erase her identity by wiping her out. Figuring that the shortest distance between two points is straight down, Arnold throws a parachute out the plane door, jumps after it, flies like Superman to catch up with it, then dodges the plane as it circles back to kill...