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...Sunday Outing, by Gloria Jean Pinkney; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Dial; $14.99), tells of Ernestine, a young African-American girl who lives in Philadelphia and hopes to save up money for a big adventure: a train ride to visit relatives in North Carolina. The dialogue is shrewdly written; Aunt Odessa, up from the South, talks country ("You wasn't worried now, was you?"), though Ernestine's parents speak Standard English. The beautiful drawings show a warm, believable middle-class black family of about 40 years...
...mercurial composer sacked not one but two leading ladies, and snubbed New York by opening the $13 million American production in Los Angeles last year. No doubt, legions of Lloyd Webber haters would love to see the infuriatingly successful British interloper have another flop like his last Broadway outing, Aspects of Love...
...increased her work load 40%. After a 12-hour day, she looks after the couple's two children at night before settling down to her college- credit courses and then going out again to make evening visits to her patients. The couple's social life consists of an evening outing a month -- with the children. Young-Johnson doesn't complain, but she thinks it will not get better soon. "Everyone is picking up the slack," she says. "I don't want my kids to go without, so I just keep on pushing. The costs of everything keep going...
...Simpson, covering the Black Renaissance was her final reportorial outing before taking over a new assignment: deputy chief of correspondents, in charge of TIME's national-news coverage. As enthusiastic as Simpson is about her new duties, which include supervising 68 correspondents in 11 bureaus, her work on this story reminded her of how much she will miss her first love, covering the arts. Says she: "Nothing makes me happier than being in the audience in a darkened theater, playing some small part in the magic happening onstage...
...spent the night in the dorms and the day in the classes, knowing that that was his last outing before the series of tests that would precede his bone marrow transplant and then his two- or three- month quarantine," Ray Shapiro said...