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...peace. Her problem is the arrival of Nastasya Torben, an imperious Russian emigre and former employer, newly widowed, who has unaccountably moved into the confines of Weekly's room and responsibility. After years of cultivating solitude and independence, the Newspaper of Claremont Street must confront disquieting impulses toward generosity. "Pore old Narsty," Weekly thinks about her disconsolate and unwanted roommate, and wonders how she can set herself free...
Returning to New York City, Cosby goes into rehearsals at a historic studio in Queens, where his show has transferred from its base in Brooklyn during a technicians' strike against nbc. About 7 p.m. Wednesday, after the final run- through, the cast is dismissed. Cosby still wants to pore over the script and fix a couple of scenes that eight-year-old Keshia Knight Pulliam is finding troublesome. But he will do that at home, after dinner...
...investigating all U.S. civil aviation accidents and making recommendations for transportation safety. By dawn the team members were sifting through the wreckage, a painstaking, hands-on activity they call "kicking tin." The investigators, who include electrical engineers, pilots, and engine and airframe mechanics, then formed "working groups." These groups pore over possible factors in the crash: the jet's engines and systems, the quality of air-traffic control, the weather, and the emotional and medical states of the people involved...
...cream stands, red-kerchiefed flocks of Young Pioneers fidgeting in the mile-long line outside Lenin's Tomb, old women sweeping courtyards with twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will be better, richer, freer than ever before. To the delight...
...great horned behemoths who "gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws" to the book's naughty young hero, Max. One alarmed reviewer wrote that Sendak's volume should not be "left about where a sensitive child might find it to pore over in the twilight." Children, with a greater capacity to find innocent pleasure in phantasms than their fearful elders, almost immediately took to Wild Things, making it one of the most popular of Sendak's books...