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...short eon later, at the intermission, he seems to be of the same opinion. "Excellent show!" he calls, slapping the back of the stranger in front of him. To the stranger though, the show looks like Spanky's Revenge: a dog with a pedigree, but nevertheless...
...looks like," says Vallely, who would stay up with Linda until dawn, going to clubs and rock concerts or simply rapping in the hotel room, and would then catch a few hours sleep before stumbling to her typewriter the next day to file her story. Vallely is no stranger to the pop music world. She has been a Ronstadt fan since 1970, helped research a cover story on Rock Idol Bruce Springsteen (TIME, Oct. 27, 1975), and reports on entertainment from the Los Angeles bureau. Says Vallely of our cover subject: "Linda is the most unstarlike of any star...
...them with rain when they call for clear skies, drought when they predict precipitation. Indeed, the weatherman's plight will probably not change a millibar from that described by the English meteorologist Sir Napier Shaw. Wrote he: "A forecaster's heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger meddleth not with...
...have been and are close to me as friends and as lover. But [sometimes] the ratio changes to something like this: Work and worry over work, 89%; struggle against lunacy (partly absorbed in the first category) 10%; very true and tender love for lover and friends, 1%. A stranger would doubt this, but you have known me and observed me for a long time. Surely...
...last chapter even a skeptical reader should have a fair measure of respect for the author. The core of his novel is a good cautionary tale, and it is clear that Hayden, who in 1963 wrote Wanderer, a nonfiction account of his maritime adventures, is no stranger to the sea. It is in the explications of bygone politics and economics that his Voyage is becalmed for long periods. Happily, the same does not hold true for the four-masted bark Neptune's Car. The steel-hulled vessel beats around the Horn with a cargo of smoldering coal. Its crew...