Word: sparrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...
...amplify Sophie Sparrow's article in todays Crimson (Oct.8th) on the IRS rulings based on Thor vs. IRS: the decision by publishers to destroy overstocks or cut back printings of specialized books (or not to publish these titles at all) in order to avoid excess tax liability will work to the extreme disadvantage of faculty, students, and libraries. It will become increasingly difficult for scholars to find publishers for specialized works and for libraries to find added copies or replacements for scholarly titles required, for example, for reserve reading. In both cases, students at all levels of post-secondary study...
...last week NBC was more sparrow than peacock. Edgar H. Griffiths, chairman of parent company RCA, told stockholders at then-annual meeting that NBC would not be televising the Games "because the U.S. team is not scheduled to participate and because the President of the United States has so desired this to be the stance we take." The decision was expected, but it was sobering nonetheless. All told, the cancellation could cost NBC up to $70 million in lost profits and out-of-pocket expenses...