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Although it did cause substantially higher tides threatening northern coast towns, and causing evacuations from Provincetown to Plum Island, Belle's punch seemed to be losing instead of gaining steam...
...switch its 30 votes from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford. The President had the nomination wrapped up, with 1,135 votes, five more than needed to nominate. Reagan might accept the vice-presidential nomination and join Ford to knock out Jimmy Carter with the Republicans' strongest one-two punch...
...works of British Mystery Writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar-an acquired taste that can easily lead to addiction. Dickinson, an ex-editor of Punch, does not make much of the process of detection, nor does he specialize in suspense. Instead, he neatly packs his books with such old-fashioned virtues as mood, character and research. The Poison Oracle (1974) is a good example. Set in an imaginary Arab kingdom, it delves into cultural anthropology (desert v. marsh Arabs) as well as fashionable psycholinguistics (in this case, how man communicates with chimpanzee). There is a murder, to be sure, whose...
Last Sunday night, apparently without provocation, Romano threw a cup of hot coffee at one person and allegedly threatened to punch another in the Science Center cafeteria...
Most habitual New Yorkers simply develop immunities, become tough as Hudson River fish that swim in a punch of sludge and orange rinds. An interesting thing about New Yorkers is that they take life more seriously - or so they think - than some other Americans do. That intensity produces neurotics, but it also keeps the mind quick. The suggestion of New York's intensity and occasional neuroticism, however, also tends to perpetuate a bigotry against New York. Images are, almost by definition, exaggerations...