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Some venturesome souls achieve fame by scaling the world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves...
...melted in the heat. This is not an especially reassuring explanation, since it would seem as though the heat ought to be precisely what sets offthe alarm. It's even less reassuring because the last time the system had a real-life test, in Moors Hall last February, the smoke detectors failed to detect the smoke...
...smoke marijuana in Muskogee...
Since an established country-music career is about as durable as a concert pianist's, Tanya should be around a long time. She does not have a typically sweet, country soprano. In fact, her flinty alto carries a disconcerting and quite false suggestion of whisky, smoke and sex. Already, Would You Lay With Me and Satin Sheets are in her repertory, and anyone listening to them on records might well picture a roadhouse chanteuse instead of an open-faced, honey-haired teen...
British Playwright Tom Stoppard chain-smokes ideas like cigarettes and emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...