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Three's Company gives television viewers a chance to see Jack in cohabitation with two sexy women. What fun they have--hanging out at the Regal Beagle and playing tricks on Mr. Furley. Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit also presents us with a man living with two women. But the members of this trio aren't as happy because they're dead and in Hell...
...next public quarrel may be over who is the team's MVP -- regal First Baseman Keith Hernandez or political Catcher Gary Carter -- and whether whoever it is should automatically be the choice of the league. "We know they're good," sighs Cardinal Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but they act like they have to remind everyone all the time." Carter, Gooden, Hernandez, Darling, Outfielder Darryl Strawberry and Manager Davey Johnson all have memoirs out or on the way. But only now are they coming to their first critical series of the year...
Shakespeare would have had a fine time with Sigourney Weaver: creating Viola and Beatrice with her in mind, collaborating with her on the odd comic masterpiece, vagabonding through London in some very comely company. Shaw would have been smitten by her combination of regal beauty and irreverent wit, of life force and light farce. The old Hollywood masters of penthouse comedy would have embraced this screwball Garbo, alive and kicking up her heels...
...second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first...
...selection. He is a familiar name to the general public, probably best known for his novel All the King's Men (1946). He is the only person ever to win Pulitzer prizes for both poetry and fiction. His distinguished career seems to have made the introduction of a regal tradition into a democratic society easy for everyone involved. "I think he is such an obvious choice," says Librarian Boorstin, who made the appointment. "We were fortunate to have Robert Penn Warren with us, willing to take on this responsibility...