Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...
...that last most of the day and more than 400 gang-related murders last year; a city where 60% of the people polled said they thought the quality of life has become worse and where half of 12,000 people polled said they had considered moving away in the past year...
Bernard's skills are much in demand these days. Crank sales in the revitalized industry pushed past the $3 billion mark last year. And because the 25-ton annual demand exceeds manufacturing capacity, there has been a scramble to increase production. Here in the heartland of the meth outlaws, a territory beginning roughly at the southerly edges of the great Los Angeles metropolitan sprawl, anarchy has replaced the discipline of a monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores...
Oddly, Philby's comments on world politics and on his colorful past seem wan and trite. It is almost as if this supermole wanted to demystify his own legend, making double agentry seem as banal as bartending. The impression of ordinariness is reinforced by his chatty letters to Knightley, which are cited in extenso. Philby comes across as a slightly dotty old Brit, complaining about how hard it is to find "bilambees" (an Indian vegetable) in Moscow and fuming about the "preposterous" radio commentaries of "the BBC's own Smarty Cooke, Alistair of that...
Once upon a time there were many magazines for children, and they featured such artful writers as Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens. But today's children are too distracted by television to sit down and read. Right? Wrong. In the past two years alone, the number of children's publications tracked by the Educational Press Association of America has nearly doubled, from 85 to 160, bringing their total circulation to an impressive 40 million. Says Don Stoll, executive director of the EPAA: "There has been extraordinary activity in children's periodicals...