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...crowds at this week's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Everything from the dated Ford Taurus to Chevy's entry-level Cavalier has been either retooled or replaced altogether. Even boring old wagons are enjoying a renaissance, with better styling and handling, and creature comforts like reclining rear seats. "For the first time in three or four years, there's a good feeling that a turnaround is under way," says analyst Kevin Tynan of Argus Research. "The Big Three are starting to regain momentum...
...Bliss, and Diary of a Wombat, by Jackie French, with illustrations by Bruce Whatley, are aimed at kids 4 to 8. In the former, the titular worm goes to school, gets punished for eating his homework and taunts his sister because "her face will always look just like her rear end." The wombat, a bearlike Australian native, accomplishes significantly less. A typical entry reads, "Morning: slept. Afternoon: slept. Evening: ate grass. Scratched." But he does stir to irritate his new human neighbors...
...Twenty years later, just before his death in 1968, Woolrich remembered one thing about ?Rear Window,? the most famous movie made from his fiction (which his agent had sold to Hollywood, along with five other stories, for a measly $5,000). ?Hitchcock wouldn?t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York,? the writer told his young agent, Barry Malzberg. ?He knew where I lived. He wouldn?t even send me a ticket...
...movies are available for purchase online, or can be rented from netflix.com. I found all but two in three Manhattan video stores (World of Video, Kim?s and, for the Indian film, Naghma House). A Woolrich starter set would comprise ?Phantom Lady,? ?The Window,? ?No Man of Her Own,? ?Rear Window,? ?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Kati Patang,? ?Martha? and ?Original...
...believes (?Phantom Lady,? ?Fear Is the Night,? ?Night Has a Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Martha?). The heroine whom love drives to deception (?No Man of Her Own?), murder (?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Mississippi Mermaid?) or near-death (?Martha?). The obtuse cop (?Phantom,? ?Black Angel,? ?Fear,? ?Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Rear Window?). The letter with ominous news (?No Man,? ?Rear,? ?Mermaid?). The murderous or suicidal impulses on an el platform or train overpass (?Phantom,? ?Thousand,? ?The Window,? ?No Man?). The race to prevent an innocent person?s death (?Phantom,? ?Angel,? ?Thousand?) - which, Woolrich made clear, was only a reprieve from...