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PROTECTING THE GIFT: KEEPING CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS SAFE (AND PARENTS SANE) By Gavin de Becker (Dial Press) Trust your intuition. That's the message from De Becker, who advises the rich and famous from Hollywood to Washington on security matters. But parents don't need to be celebrities to benefit from his sage counsel. De Becker's book gives families million-dollar advice for $22.95. If a baby sitter makes you uneasy, writes De Becker, listen to your inner voice. Pay heed if your child is uncomfortable around a particular adult. Make careful choices about the people you include...
...oldster reminiscing about the dead old days of watching an antiseptic world on black-and-white TV ("We got comedy, tragedy/Everything from A to B"); he might be Pleasantville's sitcom dad, now neck high in self-pity. The next tune, Shame, is in the head of a rich coot ranting about the young woman (and the gun) he needs to be happy. The third song, I'm Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left to say/ But I'm gonna say it anyway." Newman dares...
...Torme began performing at age four; his voice's preternatural lushness was due in part to a small second growth of tonsil after a tonsillectomy. His artistry, however, was earned, and appreciated by fans from 1940s bobby-soxers to 1990s alternative rockers. Of Torme's musical intelligence, bandleader Buddy Rich once remarked, "When Mel sings, it's like having another horn in the band." Torme played several instruments and was an arranger and composer who wrote some 300 tunes, including (with Robert Wells) the hit The Christmas Song...
MICHAEL JORDAN Will the gentlemen of the jury rise and state their verdict? Magic Johnson: "When you talk about beautiful basketball, the way Mr. Naismith drew it up to be played, you're talking about Michael Jordan." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "F. Scott Fitzgerald said the rich are not like the rest of us. Well, Michael's athletic skills are not like the rest of us." Charles Barkley: "The one player I'll accept losing to if I have to lose." Shaquille O'Neal: "I'll tell my grandchildren I got to play against him." Phil Jackson: "He represented our personal...
...still very mother-centered. It's still "mother, mother, mother," when it really has to be "mother, father, society." It's quite outrageous that the rich, powerful U.S. is one of the few modern industrial nations without a national child-care program. We are backward in that respect. Before, men had wives who took care of the details of life. And because of that, men became too divorced from the concrete dailiness of life. Now they are beginning to carry the baby in the backpack and share in the details of life...