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Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us opens with a gentle pan from the hazy skyline of a Mississippi morning across a field of grass along the tracks where a chain gang's flatcar rolls through a thicket, and to the pond where two convicts paddle a boat ashore and escape...
"What is it, Stevie?" the folks would ask as they dropped a coin on the kitchen table. Though only five, Stevie would chirp right back: "Dime" ... "Nickel" ..."Quarter"-whatever it was. That was more of a feat than it might seem. Steveland Morris had been blind since birth. He had...
"It's like the moon and it isn't," said Donald E. Gault, one of the scientists monitoring the Mariner data at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The pictures showed that Mercury's craters are much flatter and thinner-rimmed than the moon...
Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few...
GREAT SWEDISH FAIRY TALES illustrated by John Bauer. 239 pages. Delacorte/ Seymour Lawrence. $7.95. These slightly static stories introduce a world of fearless children who come to no harm, questing princes, and, above all, trolls and tomtes. Trolls, as everyone knows, are huge, gnarly creatures. They have tails, live for...