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...MUSICAL. If you've been missing Evan Mecham, Arizona's malaprop Governor who alienated practically everybody until his impeachment in 1988, you can savor again those Archie Bunkeresque remarks about gays, "pickaninnies" and Martin Luther King Jr. in this musical satire by Tempe's Mill Avenue Theater...
...didn't happen to catch that tale, but would like to, you are probably the kind of reader who would savor the unlikely hybrids and saucy aromas of Russell Lucas' Bombay streets. A London bank manager for many of his 61 years, the Anglo-Indian Lucas makes his literary debut with a collection of 10 stories as tightly constructed as bejeweled Indian snuffboxes, all odd springs and curious kinks. Nearly every one is pungent with the "damp hessian, methylated spirits and freshly planed deal" of Bombay in the '40s, and colorful families "big in rawolfia serpentina and chinchona bark...
Yutsuko Chusonji is the author of a best-selling comic-book series called Sweet Spot, which pokes fun at workaholic men and salutes the leisurely attitudes of young female workers. Rushing out of their offices in the evening to practice golf and go shopping, "these women savor only the tastiest portion of life," explains Chusonji, 28. "Men don't realize that it isn't worth it to work more than necessary. Women see that, so they don't want to become career women...
...true this time? After all the up-and-down reviews that coffee has received from medical researchers over the years, is it now possible to savor the dark brew without pangs of guilt? Can it really be that an energizing jolt of java, so good for the soul, is not bad for the body either...
...trip through the turnstiles that technological advances have made the chills even bigger. "The new rides are faster, meaner and more unpredictable than the old; and the steel, looping coasters that spin riders up, over and sideways require a stronger stomach," he reports. "Fortunately for traditionalists like myself, who savor the symmetry as well as the eerie creak of wood, there are plenty of big, new wooden coasters springing...