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...Papa John Kolstad--The Idler...
...ideological distractions. Though a few of these were lost in the final cut, it is hard to miss Allen's meaning. He does offer some tentative solutions to the issues he raises. One is contained in the character of the young girl, Tracy, played affectingly by Mariel Hemingway, 17, Papa's granddaughter. She is alarmingly direct and uncomplicated in her statement of love for Davis. His obsession with the age difference between them is something more than a bow to conventional morality; it is a convenient excuse for avoiding commitment. But while all the other characters are complicating their lives...
...Asti, daughter of Italy's Ambassador to Washington. While the whole civilized world weeps and prays, the intricately plotted caper goes as smoothly as a sacrament-until the Red Brigades horn in on the action and the $4 million ransom money. The hero in the end is il Papa, a man of great energy, guile and charity. When it is not delivering adrenal suspense, Duane's book can double as a tourist's guide to offbeat Roma...
Harvard now has a 3-0 record despite its astronomical scores, which brings to mind the jingle of the Papa Gino's pizza chain where the Crimson dined to celebrate opening day--"What you want is what...
...tiny Russian town of Petrovichi, which he left at the age of three and does not fully remember. But he writes with total recall of his sister Marcia and brother Stanley (now assistant publisher of the Garden City, N.Y., daily Newsday) and of their early days in Brooklyn, where Papa Asimov serially owned five candy stores...