Word: misses
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Butler was referring mainly to the Coalition for Better Television, which brings together the Rev. Donald Wildmon's National Federation for Decency and other right-wing groups like the Moral Majority. Formed last February, the coalition is headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., where Wildmon lives, and claims support from 5 million families in all 50 states...
...Lord God Made Them All, Herriot (1) 2.The Beverly Hills Diet, Mazel (3) 3. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (2) 4. The Alpha Strategy, Pugsley (4) 5. The Eagle's Gift, Castaneda (5) 6. Cosmos, Sagan (6) 7. Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Piggy with Beard (8) 8. Nice Girls Do, Kassorla (7) 9. Survive and Win in the Inflationary Eighties, Ruff (10) 10. You Can Negotiate Anything, Cohen...
...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...
...could miss it?] The man who brought down the house is Edward Irving Koch, 56, the 105th mayor of New York, who this week will announce, to the surprise of no one, that he hopes to remain the 105th mayor of New York for four more years (read eight). He is endorsed by his own Democrats and has already gained most of the Republican organization's endorsements as well. What the Greater Jamaica Chamber of Commerce told him in the afternoon, the Yale Club would tell him that night?that he is a sure thing. Nor did Koch tell...
Given Koch's reputation on the race issue, it would seem that he has changed a lot since the summer of 1964, when he spent eight days (his vacation) in Laurel, Miss., defending civil rights workers. He likes to talk about that time. The event was a sit-in at Kresge's to win equal service at the luncheonette counter. Black and white protesters were assaulted by people at the counter. Then the assailants brought charges against the protesters. Koch tells the story with helpless humor (the "heh, heh, heh") about the pixilated justice of the peace; the redneck...