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...Early American to the 1950s. A card depicting a 40-year-old trolley car diner could be one of this year's bestsellers. The superbestseller, surpassing all other artists, remains Nostalgia-Monger Norman Rockwell. (A favorite is a horrified Junior watching Santa dropping his beard as he kisses Mom and thus reveals himself...
Colleen McCullough's An Indecent Obsession follows her block-busting Thorn Birds; that's probably a better reason to buy her newest novel than its unconvincing World War II story line. But Mom and Dad loved McCullough's first book, and they'll probably love you for getting them this book by the same author...
...reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives." It's a chilling vision, perhaps closer to the '60s than the '80s, but still potent, and McKeaney can write ferociously funny lines: "I'd kill...
...STORY of the Washington punch is one of many in Halberstam's ledger; he is, of course, the Olympic anecdote champion. No one gets the gossip he gets--the recruiters visiting Bill Walton's mom and dad, the notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story...
Coppinger has nearly listed 48 people on that piece of paper--ranging from Mom and Dad to someone named Andy's friend, grouped in categories like "good seats" and "bad seats"--and all of them will be in New Haven Saturday afternoon. Although it remains a mystery how Coppinger managed to get a hold of four dozen sought-after Yale tickets, ("But I had to pay for 40 of them," he says) all of those people will be there watching Coppinger lead the Crimson against the Elis...