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...uncommon mix of nostalgia and liberalism reflects Ratliff's belief that some change--almost any change--is needed. "You've heard the old saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat," he says. "I try in my letters to give people lots of options." But one political movement Ratliff rejects absolutely is the currently resurgent far right, especially the fundamentalist Christian "Moral Majority" faction. "I'm afraid I'm not a very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff...
Mandavu's misfortune is not uncommon at the 1,800-acre Wild Animal Park and sister San Diego Zoo, which together house 6,500 animals of 1,050 different species. In a typical month, dozens of them wind up on the sick list as a result of diabetes, birth complications, infected teeth, or any one of a score of other problems, including injuries from fighting...
Considering the number of books issued in the U.S. (roughly 40,000 per year), some weird coincidences are bound to occur. Here is one of them. Almost simultaneously, two different publishers are releasing anthologies of past work by two living, still productive authors. Such recycling is uncommon in hard-cover publishing, although paperbacks and mass entertainment in general have thrived on it for years. On TV, reruns increasingly perpetuate the forgettable. Record companies expect people to pay good money for slapped-together albums offering the best, say, of Donny and Marie, and they are rarely disappointed...
...dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson. L.B. J. was, by all accounts, one of the most physically exuberant occupants of the Oval Office. He could sit a visitor down for a morning-long rundown on the intellectual capacity and personal...
Messed up little boys and girls are not at all uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...