Among the Intellectualoids/Tina on Top
Lyons, Donald
Tina on Top by Donald Lyons / n the days of the old New Yorker the joke ran: "What are the seven deadliest words in the English language?" Answer: "First of four parts by Ved Mehta." All that has...
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Vol. 25 • December 1992 • No. 12
