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...weight class, RoAnn Costin continued the Lowell House protest against intramural boxing and forfeited to Winthrop's Mike Bernick. Bernick tried to arrange an exhibition match with an ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, but the substitute contest fell through...
OVERFOND OF THE PAST, he brings confused eyes to the present, and he stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy blue-jeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta...
...first act. "Broadway is a jungle. I'm going back to Centerville where people are nice." Surprisingly enough, she never does, though, and at the end of her first performance -- on board ship, since the WPA is bulldozing her theater to turn it into a roller risk--her boyfriend Dick assures her that "All Broadway is at your feet" where, as Groucho Marz once remarked, there's always plenty of room. There has to be, because the whole cast spends most of its time tapdancing over the whole goddamned stage, as Holden Caulfield or somebody eloquently...
...French women was caused "by lack of sexual opportunities." Those famous men who are interviewed, Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendes-France in particular, speak more of the times than of great events. Mendes-France, recalling his escape from prison, is reminded of the modesty of a young woman whose boyfriend propositioned her as they stood beneath the prison wall from which he was about to jump. She took a long time deciding, he thought. Finally she decided, they left, and he jumped...
When the applause wasn't ringing in my ears and I wasn't thinking about sex. I had to occupy my mind other ways. Usually I just sang teenage death songs. Laura's boyfriend Tommy drove to the stock car race and killed himself about 22 times during the course of the Marathon, and if that train didn't kill Teen Angel the first time, I imagine it had by the nineteenth...