Word: solemly
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...farmers, say they are growing tired of the endless election and of watching a decision purportedly of the people turn into a legal free-for-all among high-powered politicians, lawyers and judges. "The politicians are going to decide it, the lawyers are going to decide it," says Dan Solem, 44, a trucker from Minneapolis who voted for Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. "It's kind of a joke." Added Sarah MyTych, 21, a student at the University of Minnesota: "It just all seems like such a circus." (Read "Minnesota, This Is Your Senator...
...first time I heard the demo, I thought 'Uh-oh, the Monkees,'" says PHIL SOLEM, one-half of the pop duo the Rembrandts. He was listening to a tape of the theme song for a TV show called Friends, which he and Danny Wilde had been asked to record. But after they added their two cents to the song, he got to like it. So did a Nashville disk jockey, who put the 42-second clip from the hit show on the air. The resulting clamor convinced the heretofore subcult-following duo that they ought to add the song...
Book packagers do. Pushing their products like brands of cosmetics, publishers offer rigid "lines" of fiction. "The sameness of the stories gives women comfort," says Karen Solem, editor in chief of Silhouette Romances. "They buy one line because they know they won't find something they don't want to see." Adds Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market...
...pocketa, go the typewriter keys. He remembers Thurber's unsettling word games-mice in chimes, lips in pistol-and plays a game of his own that he has played before: her, hurt, rue, brute in Thurber; the battle of the sexes, the dogs. What hides in Holmes? SOLEM? No, it doesn't quite work. M-O-L-E does, though...
...Illa suum, quamvis radice tenetur, Vertitur ad solem; mutataque servat amorem...