Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 784 pages $22.50 hardcover, $9.95 paperback...
...several decades, New Yorker Cartoonist William Steig, 78, has devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains...
...dealer: "She told me my New York Jewish accent would always make me seem dumb. She was very proud of her family, fond of going to the Mayflower Ball." After returning to New York in 1973, they broke up, and Barrows worked diligently for three years in the Abraham & Straus department stores' executive-trainee program...
STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux 338 pages...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 231 pages...