Potpourri

September, 1997

BOOK SMARTSYou say you don't know your "aba" from your "zoomorphic"? Order The Intelligent Bookmark, a 16-page bookmark-shaped pamphlet listing the definitions for "500 difficult words most often used by famous authors." Three bookmarks with green-, burgundy- and saddle-colored covers are $5.50 from the Compendium Corp., at 800-531-5905. Incidentally, an aba is a "loose outer garment" and zoomorphic means "having the form of an animal."THE NORMAN...