Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verge on instant classics, writes Death of a Dormouse (Mysterious Press; 281 pages; $15.95) under the pseudonym Patrick Ruell. He discerningly depicts the slow emergence from submission to self-respect of a woman who discovers after her husband's death how little she has known of his real life. Ruth Rendell, roughly half of whose novels feature Detectives Wexford and Burden, won an Edgar this spring under the pseudonym Barbara Vine for the one- off saga of family madness A Dark-Adapted Eye. She may be a contender for another under her own name for Heartstones (Harper & Row; 80 pages...
...eleventh year, is giving senior-bound college students a chance to get hands-on experience at a major news organization, and a rare glimpse of how TIME is put together. "It's fun knowing what will get into the magazine before anyone else does," says Intern Ruth Masters, 20, a European-history major at the University of Pennsylvania, who is researching and writing in the Economy & Business section...
They are also famous for appreciating a good joke. One was told by the famous star Lefty ("Babe") Jabov, who once hit 62 homers in a year, more than Ruth or Maris or other inferior Americans weakened by decades of debilitating capitalist exploitation of the toiling masses. After a called third strike, the fun-loving slugger turned to the beloved umpire and quipped, "But, comrade, Marx said that when workers controlled the means of production, there would be no more strikes!" The joke was considered so funny that Jabov was not jailed at all but merely sent down...
...only way to explain the phenomenon is the influx of ever-better athletes into all professional sports. Babe Ruth was simply such a legend that he could be excused for showing a little bravado. More important, his very presence at the plate commanded respect...
Traffic is thick enough to defeat just about anything except perhaps the mating instinct. In fact, some have found that choked freeways can enhance the possibilities of finding a mate. Ruth Guillou, an enterprising Huntington Beach, Calif., widow, was idling along when she saw a "charming-looking man in a yellow Cadillac. I couldn't get him out of my mind. There should have been a way for me to make contact with him." Thus was born the Freeway Singles Club, a mail-forwarding service whose participants pay $35 for a numbered decal that identifies them as members. The group...