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Exactly what you'd expect, this album conjures up pictures of Santa hanging ten on the Malibu surf while the elves cruise around 83-degree Orange County in a four-on-the-floor convertible 'Vette. The jacket notes enthuse that "here for the first time you'll hear the Beach Boys accompanied by a sonorous 40-piece orchestra." All that noise and five-part harmony seem somehow ill-suited, however, to "Frosty the Snowman," which after all, is just an ode to frozen water...
...essence of biography is selectiveness; even the most uneventful lives contain enough to fill a library. In this case, the tendancy toward inclusiveness results in a 750-page tome which, we are assured on the dust jacket, is merely the first volume...
...with Getting to YES, Fisher has gone too far. The jacket of his book, co-authored with William Ury, offers readers "a practical method of handling with confidence any difference--with spouses, children, neighbors, bosses, employees, landlords, tenants, with customers or corporations, dogcatchers or diplomats." Getting to YES, it promises, "uncovers the source of negotiating power." Sad to say, it doesn't come close...
...months later, in a North Carolina prison, by taking an overdose of painkillers. In the stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window...
...metallic-blue 1978 Plymouth, where his chauffeur was waiting, engine idling, to drive him to his post as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy on the Place de la Concorde. Almost immediately, Chapman became aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol...