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Ronald Reagan, who rarely has time for fiction, has read it, pronounced it "the perfect yarn" and issued an invitation to the author to visit him at the White House this month. Other avid fans of the novel in the Administration include U.S. Information Agency Chief Charles Wick, outgoing White House / Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and the brass at the Defense Department. The Soviet embassy in Washington has reportedly bought several copies, presumably for shipment to Moscow. The object of all this high-level interest is The Hunt for Red October, a sea thriller about spooks and submarines...
RALPH MANNHEIM'S fresh translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker with its Maurice Sendak illustrations is much more than a glitzy sugar and spice Christmas yarn it's a welcome return to textual accuracy. This season the perpetually smiling pecan masher's overly familiar ballet incarnation is finally stripped away to reveal the genuine handmade article from Germany...
Sargent has a longtime interest in beautifying the Quad area. He once hung a mobile made of mylar, wrapping paper and yarn from a telephone pole near the Quad on Garden Street...
...Gaddafi." Waving aside intimations of drug abuse and gangland connections, Judge Hill left Evans in charge but gave final authority over post-production decisions to Associate Producer Barrle Osborne, who is backed by Coppola and the Doumanis. Meanwhile, one Hollywood agent is said to have found the off-camera yarn so interesting that he offered $500,000 for screen rights to The Cotton Club courtroom papers...
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is the kind of romance novelist who cries over her own happy endings and then puts a sprig of parsley on her cat's dinner so he can join in celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the page turner that her novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido...