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Hoffman was released last week without bail. On trial, at a date that has not yet been set, will be a mellower but still puckish Hoffman. One chapter of his autobiography describes the horrors of the six weeks that he spent in 1973 in the Tombs, a now closed prison in New York City. The chapter's title: "You Can't Have Your Coke...
...CHAPTER ONE. Raymond La Scola, 61, a well-to-do Malibu pediatrician and hypnotist, in 1976 buys the Los Angeles house of Buddhist Monk Ariya Dhamma Thera, 74, and his arthritic wife Georgia, 84. Thera, whose mother was Indian and father half-Scottish, was born Benjamin Martin Marshall in Bombay, but he changed his name when he became a member of a Buddhist sect. After moving to Los Angeles, he opened the American Institute of Buddhist Studies (he translates his new name as "teacher of the noble truth"). From lectures and private lessons, he amasses a small fortune...
...Shah's end may have been "far from princely" [Aug. 4], but the last chapter will be best remembered for the noble gesture of Sadat, who has set an example for all the world...
Throughout the convention hall, tears filled many eyes. For Democrats who lived through the 1960s, this was a final chapter, both for Kennedy's quest for the nomination and for the social and political cause that he embodied. His speech may have been the last great liberal call to arms. To some it seemed impractical and out of tune with the country's needs and wants. It spoke to what once was and is no longer. But even many of those among his listeners who never admired Kennedy or his brothers may miss the sense of strength and certainty...
Hold Out is a new chapter in Browne's continuing autobiography in vinyl, and a step beyond the nebulous genetic tradition of which turn-of-the-Seventies stars like Browne, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen found themselves strange bedfellows: Satyric Rock. Streetwise and nastily loveable, satyrs Lyricize an exultation of vestigial virginity, actual and metaphoric; on flipsides, however, they generally lament anti-climactic or foiled attempts at deflorestation...