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...pent Bakeri Did I mention the raisin buns? Inkognito Terrasse...
...golden again. Thomas Wolzien, media analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, is not certain that the networks' good times are going to last. "One of three things could be happening," he says. "A) The economy could be a lot stronger than we think; B) there could be a lot of pent-up demand from people who have been out of the market; or C) this could just be a last, desperate hurrah.'' There's a comforting thought to take to the bank...
...little girl returns in Eloise Takes a Bawth, the series' fourth tale, written by Thompson in the 1960s but never published. It is the first "new" Eloise book in 40 years. Fans, aware of its existence, have long clamored for it, and Simon & Schuster is so certain of the pent-up demand that it is printing 200,000 copies...
...Oprah Winfrey of Nanjing, feeling the pain of female listeners while taking their calls and reading their letters on the air. While her own somewhat privileged background was hardly as harrowing, Xue still struggled with tough issues?facing early placement in a "black school" for outsiders, dealing with pent-up feelings towards her displaced parents, and coping with sexual ignorance that led her to believe she could get pregnant from holding hands with a man. In The Good Women of China she dovetails her personal life story with those of more than a dozen deeply-scarred casualties, often seesawing back...
Sometimes the greatest journeys are undertaken not by professional sailors but by regular folks, those of us who are, in Melville's words, "pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks." Nathaniel Stone had a desk job at a newspaper in New Mexico when he made up his mind out of the blue to row from Brooklyn, N.Y., all the way to New Orleans and back; he took rivers and canals heading south (with the occasional portage where necessary) and hugged the Atlantic seacoast on the return leg. In On the Water: Discovering...