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Hurry, hurry, hurry! Like almost everything else in the postholiday season, the skies themselves are on sale. The tailwinds are a bargain you can't afford to miss. With prices this low, staying at home is almost a crime, like being debt-free in a credit-card society. How can anyone resist these tags: Boston to Miami: was $99, now only $69. Dallas to Denver: was $95, now only $69. New York to Los Angeles: was $149, now only $99. Make your reservations immediately. Take the kids. Take Grandma and Grandpa. Buy your brother-in-law a oneway ticket...
...Albee notes in the foreword, "Alan's prose does not change its tone no matter the event, and if you are rushing through the inconsequential you may very well miss the momentous." There is plenty of both. The opening chapters are acutely felt remembrances of childhood as a Jewish outsider, the son of two physicians, in revolutionary Russia and then in rural America. Other children mockingly asked whether he had had pencils in "Rooshia"; a teacher sneered that he of all people should know the meaning of "usury." Arresting as these cherished grievances are, Schneider does little to explain...
...nothing to say. He has a host of important ideas. Whether or not they are new is irrelevant. A good idea is a good idea: military reform, national service, a notion of sacrificial patriotism, as opposed to the superficial I-Love-Miss-Liberty kind now in vogue. (Though, unfortunately, even here Hart cannot resist defining patriotism as "more than slogans celebrating past achievements. It's an opportunity to draw a blueprint for our future...
...take the National Conference championship, one Bear after another stopped by Payton's locker just to touch him. "Eleven years of climbing that mountain," he sighed, speaking not altogether figuratively. As the boy once ran the hot sandbanks by the Pearl River close to his home in Columbia, Miss., the man has made training device of a black dirt hill near suburban Arlington Heights. "I have to work harder every year," he says. "Let's put it this way, when I first started playing football, I didn't use as much adhesive tape as I use now." So at least...
...known as the warmhearted wife and mother in her weekly comedy television series The Donna Reed Show (1958-66), she once insisted that "the public really does want to see a healthy woman, not a girl, not a neurotic, not a sexpot." Her last role was the long-suffering Miss Ellie on Dallas, a show whose popularity indicates the opposite...