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...group" is a comfortable array of friends, mostly old with a few new -Folksinger Joan Baez, ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, Nashville Star Ronee Blakley and even Poet Allen Ginsberg. "We were all very close," Dylan told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We had this fire going ten years ago, and now we've got it burning again...
...trying to think of the term for a sentence or word that reads the same both backward and forward, as in "Madam, I'm Adam." It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this book-a reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves the word that has momentarily disappeared into the outer fog banks of the brain...
...down and type out a complete mystery in 38 days of writing. Stout's agoraphobic master sleuth, who made his first appearance in Fer-de-Lance (1934), was an intuitive armchair detective in the manner of Sherlock Holmes. Wolfean devotees have contended that their hero's infinite array of adroit solutions stemmed from his creator's multifaceted life. A youthful mathematical prodigy, Stout was a prolific freelancer, an ardent champion of political causes and a jack-of-most-trades who at various times trained jumping pigs and sold cigars. Nero Wolfe's last case, A Family...
More than any other, the question of public disclosure of the affairs of city councilors has been the symbolic, if not the central, focus of Lawrence W. Frisoli's campaign. For bundled up in that one concern, Frisoli has found an entire array of political issues, ranging from the way councilors act to the way they're elected. And he has earned himself some press in the process...
Last Resort. In search of a permanent solution, Carey and Rohatyn journeyed to Washington again to lobby for help from Congress. At their request. Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin scheduled hearings before his Senate banking committee this week on an array of bills to aid the city. Because of overwhelming congressional opposition to a direct subsidy, most attention has focused on one proposal that would authorize federal guarantees of state securities designed to help finance local governments. The proposed legislation would make the guarantees available only as a last resort...