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...excited Oney in the early 1970's, when he read the writings of men like Tom Wolfe. Wolfe argued that in contemporary journalism, one could write on current events with the novelist's attention to craft. The discovery that journalism need not be dry "was kind of a mind-blower for me," Oney recalls. Besides, "I didn't want to be an English teacher--which is about the only other option for an English major unless you work for Bell Telephone or something...
...time Apples emerges from the ministrations of Rory Bernal, the Chinese-Jamaican makeup man, she looks like Aphrodite in the year 2001. Gallant stretches her out across his glass dinner table and arranges her blouse to show her right breast. The makeup man starts a blower to make her hair blossom. Gallant clicks away: "That is great, wonderful . . . bring that hand just a little closer . . . that's right, give me tits again ... let me fix the hair. . ." Between shots Apples curls up like a cat and sings softly to herself. The next morning she is booked on a flight...
...play the Science Center like an organ," Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, says when describing the vast blower system that pumps air in and out of the eight-year-old building. One of the most inefficient of the 175 or so buildings under the jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Science Center is the youngest of what Abernathy and his team of efficiency investigators like to call "the Big Four": the Faculty buildings that consume--and waste--the most energy each year...
...This hoax should be headed off. However, nobody wants to blow the whistle because that has political consequences to the whistle blower. I'm fearful of the consequences for the political system...
...there is no room for theology, or even for the supernatural, in the class struggle. Losey, after underplaying the hair-raising moment when the statue first speaks, dissipates its horrific arrival by treating it almost as a hallucination. Then, in one of his most bizarre touches, a glass blower's open furnace-first seen during the overture-materializes once again in the Don's house and engulfs him, in a sort of industrial accident. Don Giovanni does not exactly go to hell, but the scene does...