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What will probably happen is that I'll forget all about the Class Gift myself, and then Harvard's birthday or whenever it is I'm supposed to present the Gift will roll around, and during the ceremony I'll say I have to go to the bathroom or something, and I'll run over to Rix or CVS and get Harvard something really cheap, but sensible, like a big bottle of aftershave or a Russel Stover's candy sampler...
...blueprint. Hoffman introduces us to Nora Silk as she is moving into a little box of a home, so much like the others "that children wandered into the wrong house for cookies and milk." Her feckless husband, a magician who cannot even get hired for children's birthday parties, has left her and fled to Las Vegas, where he hopes to perfect his lounge act. Towing Billy, her eight-year-old who sometimes wore a look so awful "complete strangers had to fight off the urge to smack him," and a baby "who hadn't the slightest notion of what...
...next birthday, my parents bought me a gift that has enchanted youngsters for decades--a shortwave radio. Those fruitless nights of searching for stations from Trenton were over. This was the big time...
...present, most economists predict that the expansion will reach its eighth birthday in November and continue at about a 2% rate through 1991. But that is cold comfort for many people. "The real issues are stagflation and stagnation," says David Hale, chief economist of Kemper Financial Services. "Instead of long unemployment lines, we're going to see increased frustration and resentment over stalled growth and incomes...
...would never refer to any member of this court as a politician. But I would say this, and I think every member of the court would agree: Bill Brennan is a very attractive and persuasive human being, and also a very able judge. He just celebrated his 84th birthday. He has been here since 1956, and his influence has been profound...