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...parents and wondered if I should abandon the theatre and return to rabbinical school. Through the half-open door I saw Connie and also Emily, both laughing and chatting with guests, and all I could mutter to myself as I remained a limp, hunched figure was an age-old line of my grandfather's which goes...
Spurring the issue is a decision by University Police to begin enforcement this semester of an age-old ban on bicycle riding in the Yard. The purpose of the ban, police say, is not to hamper bicyclists, but to protect pedestrians. Bicyclists counter that the money spent on posting policemen at the entrances to the Yard would better have been used to begin the network of bicycle paths that no one seems to have taken seriously five years ago. Their protests should cause the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and senior administrators to reconsider seriously...
Still, Follett's true strength remains an acute sense of geographical place, and the age-old knowledge that character is action. In Rebecca, as in Needle and Triple, he brilliantly reproduces a distant terrain, complete with sounds and smells and tribal rites. The most romantic of all the top espionage thriller writers, he understands and sensitively portrays the women who come in and out of his cold. When the belly dancer and the courtesan appear onstage, Rommel seems almost irrelevant...
...simply by staying alert to subtle clues, just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves and not for families or groups. Says Archer: "I believe we must...
...second thing last week's Republican convention reaffirmed was the age-old adage of oratory. Add one ounce of optimism to every sentence, mix with several grams of virulence directed at the opposing party or the third party candidate--especially, if applicable, at the incumbent--wave hands in frenetic form, pound the microphone with Churchillian grandeur to show strength, ask rhetorical questions the answers to which are either a resounding "No" or the name of the nominee, and you get a pleasant and predictable melange, certain to excite and incite the conventioneers--and to bore everyone else...