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...list of recorded volumes, now some 12,000 titles long, is as wide as a library. Some are only one tape: about an hour and a half. Others can go on for days. Listeners can wander from Hamlet and Moby Dick to Tough Marriage and Eat to Succeed. Although fiction is the most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...less mundane book browsing and adventures in dustiness, venture into dimly-lit used bookstores and wander their narrow aisles in search of treasure. Even if The Book Case (42 Church St.) doesn't have specifically what you're looking for, it's a must for used book fanatics. Boasting the Square's largest selection of used books, it has a basement filled with used volumes and don't miss the sections which are tucked into the little nooks, lining the wall of the main room. On the ground floor, the store has a good selection of funky post cards...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Browsing for Books | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

Adventurous eaters can nibble on everything from bangers and mash (Britain) to buffalo steak and caribou stew (Northwest Territories). To sip with the caribou, there is clear water from an 8,000-year-old Canadian glacier. For those who wander through Vancouver itself--and everyone should--there is wide culinary variety, everything from Afghan to Mexican. On Granville Island, a yuppie heaven of high-priced condominiums and boutiques, several good restaurants on the water top coffee and dessert with a view of the 10 o'clock fireworks display, which signals the fair's nightly closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Canada Puts on a Fair That's Fun | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...group of kinda talented, kinda famous young actors somewhat unfairly called the Brat Pack. She needs only a few credits for her bachelor's degree at the University of Southern California. A partly written novel lies fallow. Good sense rules her life, though she has been known to wander off go- cart driving with Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson (respectively, the jock and the punk of The Breakfast Club, and the waiter and Sheedy's lover of the hanging-out-after-college film St. Elmo's Fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Provost, like many Harvard directors, misses at least one basic of direction. Although movement is well choreographed in some scenes, in others actors wander about with stutter steps as they tentatively proceed to purposeless end points...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Half Truths | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

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