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Randy Newman: Trouble in Paradise (Warner Bros.). Part stand-up comedy, part The Day of the Locust: Newman's best since 1972's Sail Away...
...William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Horace Greeley. Herman Melville lived out his life here, embittered by the public's dismissal of Moby Dick. Stephen Crane finished The Red Badge of Courage in his place on 23rd Street. Nathanael West, author of The Day of the Locust worked as night manager in the Kenmore Hotel near by. He used to sneak pals of his into the hotel, including Dashiell Hammett, who was working on The Maltese Falcon at the time...
Camp David is truly beautiful, with the cottages and paths snuggled on top and down one side of a small mountain, sheltered by a thick growth of stately oak, poplar, ash, locust, hickory and maple trees. A security fence encompasses about 125 acres of rocky terrain, and the close proximity of the living quarters engenders an atmosphere of both isolation and intimacy, conducive to easing tension and encouraging informality...
...were several other prestige brands: Sedutto's, Bassetts, Baskin-Robbins, Louis Sherry, Breyers and Schrafft's. First place went to the Giant food chain's economy vanilla "Kiss," which sells for $1.29 a half-gallon and contains milk fats, nonfat milk, sugar, corn sweetener, whey, locust bean and guar gums, mono-and diglycerides, calcium sulphate, Polysorbate 80, carrageenin, natural and artificial flavors, natural and artificial color, and the legal minimum of 10% butterfat...
...lots of silence were all he seemed to need. Time and again he sought remote areas of the Muslim world where "it is as meritorious to kill a Christian as to go on the pilgrimage." He traveled under various auspices: in the Sudan Political Service, and as a locust-control officer and a soldier during World War II serving in Ethiopia, Syria, Egypt and Palestine...