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...hard-boiled genre, the most ironic triumph is Charles Willeford's The Way We Die Now (Random House; 245 pages; $15.95), a snake-mean slice of South Florida lowlife that might finally have brought overdue recognition if its author had not died in March of this year. Haitian illegal immigrants and Cuban Marielitos are among the supporting victims and sleaze artists in a multiplot story featuring a ruthless but effective cop whose beat is long- unsolved murders. A.E. Maxwell's equally colorful Just Enough Light to Kill (Doubleday; 254 pages; $16.95) blends Soviet high-tech espionage with striking tableaux...
...Monday night sessions when random musicians get up with other musicians and form a band and jam for awhile," Broadman said. "That brings in a lot of other musicians and generates a lot of ideas and change. There's a lot of talk there, and that gets jazz going. It's always changing...
...cost of $100,000. The game drew 22,000 fans to the stadium, three times the norm, while concessions took in $100,000, about four times the usual sales. At the final home game in September, the team will give away a $34,000 Corvette sports car in a random drawing...
...spicy as a Danielle Steele novel on the same subject, but Rossiaud's study does provide several interesting anecdotes about the lives of medieval women of the night. While the topic may appeal more to the medieval historian than to the random reader, Rossiaud's writing style is light enough that the study is one many can enjoy...
...enthusiasm for change, Americans have long been the butt of the rest of the world's jokes for embracing the latest nostrums and potions, from patent medicines to vitamin E. But in recent years, argues , Barsky, Americans have taken their concern for good health to extremes, fretting about every random ache and pain. Over the past 15 years, he reports, polls show people are complaining more about symptoms of illness; those who say they are satisfied with their health dropped from 61% in the 1970s to 55% in the mid-1980s. Americans seem to be on the verge of becoming...