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RECOVERING. Karla Woods, 23, waitress who had been pronounced dead and placed on a morgue table for autopsy when a police detective noticed her swallowing, after which she was rushed to a nearby hospital and revived; in Champaign, Ill. After taking medication, she developed hypothermia, or low body temperature, so extreme that her breathing was suspended and her pulse undetectable...
...Carré. The Little Drummer Girl (its title an oblique allusion to a Christmas song set in the Holy Land) is both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British intelligence and Karla, his opposite number in the Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess...
...Philharmonic Gets Dressed (Harper & Row; $10.50) is one of those rare collaborations to which the word classic instantly adheres. Karla Kuskin, author of 27 exemplary children's books, had an inspired idea: Why not follow an orchestra as it prepares for performance, not in the pit, but two hours ahead of time? Flutists and cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under...
...Billy Idol has jumped on the bandwagon of re-recording 60s hits with the added technology of the 80s. When the songs come on the radio, in a bar, in a club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...
...time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter than usual. Today they seem attracted to the concentrated image and the fragmented line...