Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
...over the narcotics epidemic has ignited a divisive debate over drug laws and the best way to attack the problem. Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi has called for a drastic reversal of the old law: he wants users punished. "You can't ban the sale of drugs from one side and give freedom to buy them on the other," he argues. Craxi's hard line has drawn fire from liberals, especially Minister for Special Affairs Rosa Russo Jervolino, chief author of a new antidrug law calling for stiffer sentences for traffickers, more support for police, and better rehabilitation programs. However...
...constant adversary, California. Nobody has ever caught so well the smell of eucalyptus in the night or the treacherous lights and crooked streets of the L.A. hills. In Hollywood, city of false fronts and trick shoots, Chandler found the perfect location for investigating artifice, and with it the shadow side of the American dream of reinventing lives. The one time Marlowe enters a Hollywood stage, it is from the back, and that, in a sense, is his customary position: seeing glamour from behind, inspecting illusions from the inside out, a two-bit peeper spying on the rich man's costume...
...strike quickly and unexpectedly. The U.S. has virtually no defense against such missiles, particularly when the Soviets also employ stealth technology. The threat is compounded by the difficulty in negotiating a cutback in cruises: they are so small and portable that their numbers would be almost impossible for either side to verify, and conventionally armed missiles cannot be distinguished from nuclear weapons...