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...lured by the 11,300-ft. Aspen Mountain, the classy lodges and chic crowds. Its glittery, fast-lane image later included pricy real estate and such open cocaine use that it acquired the nickname "Toot City." Artists, ski bums and a coterie of rich and famous, including Actor Jack Nicholson and Troubadour John Denver, settled in what Denver dubbed "the sweet Rocky Mountain paradise." Now, as the ski craze cools and recession-fueled competition among Western resorts increases, hard times have intruded on paradise...
...concentrates productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...
...without instances of whimsy. In William Hauptman's "Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is bound for glory. Nicholson Baker's "K. 590" presents a university string quartet attempting to practice Mozart in a hotel "refreshment room" while the landlady vacuums and a pair of teen-age girls ply a soda machine with quarters...
...land that separated two tributaries of the Amazon. It was a feat of autocracy and artistry, of engineering and enlightened madness-a readymade metaphor for Herzog's kind of film making. The movie would also be his first "big" production, with financial help from Coppola and with Jack Nicholson as the star...
...George Nicholson, Dell's editor in chief of books for young readers, insists that despite the explicit, eye-catching themes in many of today's Y.A. titles, "we also have considerable respect for this audience. We want to have an uplifting, affirmative quality to books written for children." Adolescents cannot seem to get enough. To keep up with the demand, Dell is offering a $1,000 prize (plus $4,000 in advances) for the most outstanding first Y.A. novel...