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...KIDS SAY "hi" back to Nadav Safran Who handled the CIA with such great elan. To you we proffer our young butts to kick, A sleighful of insults, and a conscience to prick. And what of Doug Hibbs, who's been kicked out of Eden On "medical leave" from Berlin to Sweden? Here's a new playground for you to find kicks; Have you considered a position with the New York Knicks? And to the entire Gov Department a graduate class Not filled with women all charging "harass!" To chairman Bob Putnam, six pounds of patience--He'll need...
...Locke-Ober diner, money is no option, loyalists might proffer...
DIED. Carl Proffer, 46, scholar, translator and publisher with his wife Ellendea of an indispensable Soviet literature press; of cancer; in Ann Arbor, Mich. By reprinting the work of contemporary, often dissident Soviet authors as well as preserving the work of Soviet playwrights and writers of the '20s, the Proffers' press helped keep some of the best Soviet literary work alive in the West...
...restaurant meals, all consumed incognito (Sheraton refuses to pose fullface for the camera, to make it harder for restaurateurs to identify her and proffer extraordinary service), will help inform her next book, a New York City restaurant guide to be published early next year. The book, she says, will take "a different angle" from her definitive Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants. She is also collaborating with Comedian Alan King on a compendium of memoirs, recipes and restaurant anecdotes called Is Salami-and-Eggs Better Than Sex? The answer to that curious question...
...Ardis) by Sasha Sokolov, 40, has not gained adequate recognition because of difficulties in translation. Cast in the form of an internal dialogue between the two personalities of a schizophrenic youth, the novel is rich in exotic images and associations that are largely lost in English, despite Translator Carl Proffer's heroic efforts...