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...Down East Disney keeps his word processor clicking at a phenomenal rate. He has just finished collaborating with fellow Horror Novelist Peter Straub (Ghost Story) on a fantasy novel called The Talisman. After that comes a new collection of short stories, and a lengthy monster opus called IT is in the works. Says Straub: "Steve is a workaholic who wouldn't be happy if he wasn't writing...
...Lily must also face current problems. She is unmarried and has a child named Anna, in honor of her mother: "Without an Anna, I am desolate. She should not be so important. I am trying to remedy that. I am trying to improve, but I have made her my talisman: if she is happy, then I am not my mother." Her father, from whom she has been estranged for years, has disappeared from his old haunts. Rumor has it that he is in Cambodia, doing penance for past sins by treating the victims of the war in Viet Nam. Lily...
...this opinion is not shared by city planners and urbanologists, who see in the Rouse Co. philosophy of pleasure and profitability a talisman for urban revitalization. The most important of its current ventures...
...stigma of unemployment involves more than just a lowered income. Employment is now the talisman of modern man. In societies from ancient Greece to the aristocracy of 18th century Britain, work was left to a lower class. In contemporary society, labor is considered more a blessing than a burden, and something that can give meaning to life. In casual conversation, the first two questions asked of someone are usually,"What's your name?" and "What...
...Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, challenged the prevailing wisdom. It said that there was no reason for healthy adults to decrease dietary cholesterol and, in a slap at diet faddists, added: "Good food . . . should not be reguarded as a poison, a medicine, or a talisman. It should be eaten and enjoyed...