Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Egypt's King Tutankhamen, who had a couple of golden chariots buried near him when he died in 1352 B.C., Californian Sandra Ilene West is journeying to the hereafter in style. Oil Heiress West died two months ago (the cause has not been determined) at the age of 37. Last week Mrs. West was buried, as she requested, "in my lace nightgown ... in my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." At the San Antonio cemetery where her husband is also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate...
...youthful and fresh, at the head of the long breakfast table spread with racks of toast, poached eggs, steaming coffee, British marmalade (a rare luxury) and linen napkins. The sun poured through the tall windows onto the polished wood and the overstuffed armchairs. She was flanked by her teen-age sons. Otherwise, she is alone these days. Her husband-who. like her, emigrated to Rhodesia from Britain 20 years ago-has gone abroad to drum up business as a tobacco growers' consultant...
...will the money come from? University officials estimate that colleges may be forced to spend over $1 billion altering their buildings. But the institutions most affected by the reforms are the elementary and secondary schools. Of the nation's 8 million handicapped children-about 12% of all school-age children -only an estimated 40% now receive adequate special education. The rest must be located and placed in what the law calls the "least restrictive educational environment" by September 1978. Schools, already strapped financially, estimate that it costs $2,800 a year to educate each handicapped child, compared with...
...investment policies which effectively support it, but we simply feel impotent in the face of Harvard, the immovable institution. Harvard is certainly not Hampshire College, where the school's administrators seem to admit they are accountable to the students at the college. Perhaps Harvard Corporation members do believe the age, wealth and prestige of the University do give it the right, or at least the raw power, to completely ignore the moral indignation of the students who, after all, are the essential reasons for the University's existence. Quite sadly, the Harvard Corporation members may well believe this, and they...
Christopher Durang, 28, is a grandchild of the movie age, and his play, A History of the American Film, is a comic memorial to our movie mania. In a little over two hours, Durang recomposes America's entire cinematic history, from Orphans of the Storm to The Exorcist, including everything in between, from the screwball comedies of the '30s to Elizabeth Taylor screaming at Richard Burton in the '60s. In Durang's hands the familiar images always take an unexpected turn, however, and he proves that there is nothing so funny as the cliche...