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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year's paperbacks make lousy gifts. There are some first-rate, first-run softcovers available, usually tucked out of sight behind the best-selling cat display. Some of the best works are moderately priced oversized books on rock and roll. The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years incorporates the work of many rock writers and is a heavily-illustrated authoritative history of Mick, Keith and the boys from the beginning. A comprehensive collaborative effort, the book is a fascinating history; its innovative layout also makes it fun to read...
Budget deadlock, a veto, brief layoffs-and no solution in sight...
...friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways to take refuge from human misery: playing the organ and delighting...
...enter American living rooms. An animated Garfield television special will air on CBS in 1982. The script calls for action, adventure and a G-rated love scene: Garfield romances a lasagna. "I'd tell you how the affair ends," Davis says, "but it's not a pretty sight...
Things still could have been worse for the hapless Huskies. Harvard coach John Dooley said after the game. "Their goalie made some outstanding saves--the score could have been out of sight," he added...