Word: unicorn
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...child has ever wanted to change a frog into a prince, learn the principles of alchemy or snag a unicorn (and who has not?) The Sorcerer's Scrapbook (Random House; $6.95) is an ideal guidebook. Michael Berenstain's straightfaced account purports to be the Life and Times of Nicodemus Magnus, Doctor of Magic and Sorcerer to the Duke, told in his own words. But its true power and humor lie in its chiaroscuro Dark Ages illustrations of dungeons and dragons and a whimsical text that Merlin might have written on the wind...
...Maxwell Sroge, a Colorado Springs-based consultant who monitors catalogue sales, expects them to reach $33 billion this year, compared with $29 billion in 1980. Consumers now can mail or telephone orders for a deluxe domestic robot ($17,500) complete with electronic pet ($650) from Neiman-Marcus, a porcelain unicorn that plays The Impossible Dream ($24.95) from World of Music Boxes or a life-size female torso made out of milk chocolate ($60) from KrÖn Chocolatier...
Insults are not dead in Brevard County, Fla. I just heard a Government contractor "roast" a departing Air Force major with: "Working with the major has been like playing leapfrog with a unicorn...
After a failed squeeze attempt, two Harvard baserunners--Gill Raney and Alissa Friedman--found themselves sharing third base, but the Unicorn infield allowed Friedman to return to second safely...
...Crimson's solid hitting and the Unicorn's ineptitude continued for the next three innings. Betty 'she's so hot, you'll melt if you stand near her" Ippolito collected two hits--a single and a double--and two RBI's. Elaine Holpuch cracked her fourth homer of the season, and, in the bottom of the third, designated hitter Sarah LeBlond scored the 16th run of the game when three consecutive Smith errors let her circle the bases...