Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers a lean novel about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife, a love story so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife on an old tree...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey (Harper & Row; $18.95). An Australian novelist turns in a shimmering fantasy of gambling and glassmaking, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail...
George Bush was quick to pounce on Dukakis. "That's the difference, as plain as day, between us," said the Vice President. "Tax cuts vs. tax hikes. I will not raise your taxes, period." Dukakis, who boasts that he has balanced "nine budgets in a row," shot back by pointing to the Reagan record: "This Administration has raised taxes four times in six years ((and)) given us more red ink than all the Administrations from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined...
...Harper & Row; 209 pages...
...reached the top only to be dismissed as a bimbo," Blair writes. But with film and television rights to both biographies already snapped up, Savitch is sure to be remembered as the woman who brought the dark side of Hollywood to broadcast row...