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Bloomingdale's takes pride in introducing chic fashions to trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate that the department store was the first in town to sell the latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour...
...books that were read from had been banned for a wide range of reasons. Among the books was J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which was banned for obscene language as late...
...When I started teaching, I expected my students to have read A Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies," said Richard C. Marius, who heads Expository Writing. "Now everyone has read Stephen King. In understanding children and adults and evil and their confrontation with evil, Stephen King is in a class with Henry James and the Turn of the Screw. He is a lot better than Edgar Allen...
...critique of her husband at the Democratic National Convention, as "that woman." As for Ted Kennedy's famous "Where was George?" line, Barbara can only say, "He shouldn't even say George Bush's name." Though she has spent much of her life in Texas, this product of tony Rye, N.Y., can still summon a patrician bearing to cut the uppity down to size. The next President says she is "more direct" than he is. Says campaign manager and Republican Party Chairman Lee Atwater: "She can spot a phony a mile away." Her children have a nickname...
...long as her husband has been prepping for his. The third of four children of a father who worked his way up the ladder to become president of the McCall Corp., which among other things owned McCall's magazine, and a mother happy to entertain and garden in suburban Rye, Barbara attended public and private schools. She finished at Ashley Hall, a South Carolina prep school where neglecting to wear white gloves was virtually a punishable offense. At a party in Greenwich, Conn., during Christmas break her senior year, she met George Bush, recently graduated from Andover. A generic dancer...