Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Versatile Talent: Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who scored off-Broadway with his dynamo dramas True West and Fool for Love, and on-screen as the sexy incarnation of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff...
Once upon a time there was a man named Marshall Taylor, nicknamed Major Taylor because he stood so straight. Major Taylor had two other attributes worth noting: he was the world's fastest bicycle rider, and he was black. The story is the stuff of juvenile fiction, but every word of it is true, and it is truly narrated in Bicycle Rider (Harper & Row; $9.95). Abetted by Ed Young's exuberant illustrations, Author Mary Scioscia raises Taylor from obscurity to role model. Her descriptions of turn-of-the-century black life in rural America never moralize; perhaps that...
...wish we could offer our hearty congrats To barrier-breaker young William M. Batts. But mum's the good word, we can't talk about that, One's taught to keep stuff like that under one's hat. Instead, we'll keep matters decorous and clean By buying Greg Lyss a new Xerox machine To run off his thousands of letters pristine While still saving money for Council and Dean...
...year at the podium for Richard E. Pipes. (A scholarly hint to young Dan the Pipette: Just follow your father; you'll get tenure yet.) For Ed Meese, to whose mind hunger's only a cheat, Some clam chowder popcorn's a holiday treat. Besides, just in case the stuff proves deleterious, We'll toss in some ice cream--the new Gelateria's. And, though her green birthplace his favorite is not, Here's a Cabbage Patch Doll for our friend Jimmy Watt...
Amuzzle we'll send to wherever the Band is; A grandfather clock to time-teller Dave Landes; Of the Indy's Dave Finegold the stockings we'll stuff With a typewriter ribbon in case things get tough. The wags at the 'Poon get a joke book to read Before their next issue; it's just what they need. Their Sackbut-that-was should be sure not to bungle; A Bells on the stage is worth ten in the Jungle...