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...sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord...
...more shopping. Lewis will compete at the World University Games in Canada in July, and in August he goes to the first official World Championships in Finland. Records could fall anywhere along the way. "I'm four inches away in the long jump," he says coolly, "one tick from the world record in the 100 and three ticks in the 200. They're all within reach, I think...
Writers have similar problems of finding the right style. Berger, once again, has found the solution. His work may not win any prizes for the celebration of the indomitable human spirit, but The Feud is an affectionate cheer for all the peeves, itches and dreams that make most people tick...
WHAT MADE this "human tornado" tick? What gave him the energy to devote his life to cause after cause? Eleanor Roosevelt, who worked with Allard Lowenstein in the '50s, once explained that "he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion. "His was a body that could not sit still, a mind that could not rest. "Whenever A1 came to see me," recalls Kennedy. I knew that he brought with him a challenge to be met, a wrong to be righted, a dream to be fulfilled. He would show up unexpectedly, he would pace...
FIRST OF ALL, the six members of the study group--professors Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samael P. Hantington and Josheph S. Nye Jr, and graduate student Scott D. Sagan--tick off their views (and occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...