Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the docudramas and paperback page turners with barbed wire on the covers, Wiesel has kept to his private tasks of organizing memory and troubling a deaf world with his cries. Although he has been called the voice of the 6 million killed in the "Final Solution," few of his more than 20 books directly confront the events of Auschwitz. Often they discuss the testamental prophets (Five Biblical Portraits, Messengers of God), ancient legend (The Golem) or contemporary Eastern Europe (One Generation After). His study of the Soviet Union (The Jews of Silence) was a new jeremiad, going beyond...
...shows you how bored I was," he twangs self-consciously in response to the stares of teammates who have observed him reading Arthur Schlesinger's Robert Kennedy and His Times, and could not be more stunned if he were wearing a necktie. Particularly by N.B.A. standards, it is a paperback of Tolstoyan heft. "This will probably take me three years," Bird moans. Not one for justifying himself much, he explains the selection by mentioning a couple of movies and leaves out the truth that a basic grounding in the Kennedys is a prerequisite for conversation in Boston...
...results. Since 1939, when Psychologist E.L. Thorndike devised a "goodness index" to rate U.S. cities, no rankings have inspired more disagreement than those about home sweet home. The latest edition of Rand McNally's Places Rated Almanac can only add to the controversy. According to the 449-page paperback released last week, the best all-round metropolitan area in which to live in the U.S. is Pittsburgh. The worst: Yuba City, Calif...
...this high-level interest is The Hunt for Red October, a sea thriller about spooks and submarines by Tom Clancy. Currently in its fourth printing, the book has been on the capital's best-seller list for 15 weeks and is inching toward the charts in other major cities. Paperback rights have been sold for $49,500. Negotiations are under way for a movie...
...Postscript to the Name of the Rose emerges as a sort of printed faculty dinner conversation with Umberto Eco. The slim volume costs $8.95, about double the price of the original's paperback edition. Still, that's a bell of a lot cheaper than flying to Italy to catch Professor Eco's office hours...