Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Russian servicemen feel like second-rate citizens. Career officers find themselves in 13th or 14th place on the pay scale, behind the doormen of expensive Moscow restaurants and the maids who work for Russia's novy rich class. In fact, many officers now have to moonlight as bodyguards or laborers to feed their families...
Grandfather's Pencil, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman (Harcourt Brace; $14.95), is a dreamy tale of an English boy who finds a magical pencil lost by his grandfather, an old sailor. The boy sleeps. Moonlight floods his window. The pencil writes by itself, remembering its early life as part of a great tree. The paper it writes on remembers being logs in a wild river. The room's floorboards were part of a ship that flew a black flag. The grandfather was a boy; the boy will grow older. Fine drawings whisper the twin secrets of storytelling: long...
...best cuts are those that pair Sinatra with distinctive singers confident enough simply to be themselves. Patti LaBelle brings a rich, unfettered soulfulness to Bewitched, Linda Ronstadt an easy clarity to Moonlight in Vermont. Rumor had it that Axl Rose was to have appeared on Duets II. One wonders what he might have done with My Kind of Town, a song that here couples Sinatra with his most unabashed emulator, Frank Sinatra...
...suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows, not just segments, to behind-the-scenes reports from movie sets. But at least its hosts don't moonlight by singing lullabies...
...Cubans slipped out of the bays and rivers on their motorized private boats, with entire families on board, for a relatively comfortable crossing. But from the vantage point of the seawall in Miramar, Havana's tree-lined suburb, 30 to 40 inner tubes could be seen setting off by moonlight...