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...President of India died, and I called Mama to ask her to represent me there. When she answered the phone I asked her what she was doing. She said she was sitting around the house looking for something to do, and I said, "How would you like to go to India?" She said, "I'd love to go some day." I said, "How about this afternoon?" She said, "Okay, I'll be ready...
...save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous and utterly hopeless. Alexander rejected it, of course, for which both Sasha and Mama turned against him, and from that day on Mama disavowed all connection with her nephew and refused to see any member of his family...
...best stuff here, though, is the flat-out rock 'n' roll: John blow torching his way through a couple of Arthur Alexander scorchers, Soldier of Love and A Shot of Rhythm and Blues; Paul lighting into That's All Right Mama and striking sparks off Carl Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy...
...perceived as a threat to hardback publishing; so were television, outlandish contracts, school and library closings, and federal cutbacks. The business survived them all. And today it is moving, however slowly, toward a new reality-although the latest paper chase sounds like a fairy tale: the Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear deal. The term was coined to describe Tom Robbins' 1980 intermountain fantasy, Still Life with Woodpecker. The book was published simultaneously in a $12.95 hardcover (Papa) and a $6.95 quality paperback (Mama), with a $3.25 mass-market paper edition (Baby) that soon followed. The decent (and once...
...White House. "I asked what Edmonton is getting in return, and they told me two first-round picks and the state of Texas.") Gretzky doesn't even mind jumping up on Canadian talk shows and joining his girlfriend, Singer Vickie Moss, 20, in a squeaky rendition of Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Hockey. Still, it's embarrassing...