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...part of Rumania that now belongs to the Soviet Union, he was sent, with his father, to a labor camp in the Ukraine. The eight-year-old boy escaped and, during three years reminiscent of Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird, roamed the countryside in the guise of a shepherd. He lived mainly alone and in silence, fearing what the peasants might do to him if they learned that he was a fugitive Jew. After the war, he made his way to a displaced-persons camp in Italy. In 1948 he arrived in Palestine...
Jack Kemp, the Boy Scout of supply-side economics, hates to speak ill of others. Like the "good shepherd" he so often cites, Kemp wants to convert both foe and friend to his vision of boundless growth through tax cuts and monetary reform. But so far his gauzy optimism has proved more boring than inspirational to voters; for months, he has idled near the bottom of the polls. Last week Pollyanna began to look more like Cruella De Ville: Kemp unleashed an uncharacteristically hard-nosed campaign that managed to rattle both George Bush and Bob Dole. In so doing...
...then leaves again. You can't blame him. Pat, as she admits, is overplaying her role of Mother Courage as Kelly Girl. Not only does she now have her own three children living with her, she has also taken in Pauline, who has five kids and a pregnant German shepherd. Chaos, at least. And lurking about Pauline are a violent estranged husband and a homicidal ex-husband. This, furthermore, is not the book's Act II, in which the plot is supposed to get complicated; it is Act III, when everything is supposed to settle down and make sense...
...temperamental femme fatale? What movie star can most quickly bring a lump to your throat? Whose acting skills can make you gasp in admiration? Who is the fanciest dude on the screen today? Enough. The questions are too easy, and you already know that the answers are not Cybill Shepherd, William Hurt, Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy...
...earners in the '40s. But now, it seems, nearly every movie, TV series or commercial has another of man's best friends wagging and barking away. Among the other rising dog stars of 1987 are Grendel, the yuppie puppy on ABC's family drama thirtysomething, and Bo, the German shepherd-husky half-breed of Summer School...