Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder Dinosaur Bob (Harper & Row; $12.89) is dedicated to King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile...
...legal maneuvering intensified over when and whether Oliver North will go on trial for his role in the Iran-contra fiasco, nonlawyers had reason to wonder about the motives of some of the players. On the one hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many...
...such dignitaries as Secretary of State George Shultz and Cuba's Fidel Castro, Salinas tried to spell out his vision for modernizing and uniting Mexico. Said he: "There won't be miracles. But I assure you there is hope." Some of Salinas' early actions, though, are leading skeptics to wonder how serious he is about restoring faith in the country's discredited government: a fifth of his Cabinet are holdovers from the outgoing administration...
...urge the school to do what is possible with their limited resources. In all honesty, however, Kennedy School parents and supporters will continue to look curiously at the new building being constructed in our backyard and wonder where the School's commitment to affirmative action and improving the status of women and minorities really ranks among its other obvious priorities. Patty Spengler Member, Child Care Policy Group Kennedy School of Government
...have to wonder what the members of the Harvard men's hockey team must have been thinking this Sunday when they skated on to the Bright Hockey Arena ice in their first real test of the ECAC season against the Cornell...