Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nyet: interviews with cosmonauts must be arranged well in advance and not on an exclusive basis. Besides, Thompson was told, the cosmonauts hate shaving and making all the other preparations required before meeting the press. "My pen doesn't take pictures," Thompson replied; all he wanted was a brief chat. In the end, and in the new spirit of glasnost, Thompson was granted rare access to the Soviet Flight Control Center in Kaliningrad. There, through an interpreter, he communicated with the orbiting cosmonauts during a brief period in which they were in contact with earth. The clarity of the transmission...
...bout with the Penn poison was brief and painful. Like the 130 football fans, I could not sleep the night after the Penn-Cornell game. And it wasn't because I was excitedly replaying the events of the 17-13 Big Red upset...
Lots, as it turns out. Take, for example, Fatal Attraction. It is your standard slasher scenario. Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...GOOD to be back in the pages of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, and for those of you who aren't on my select mailing list, here's a brief summary of what I've been doing this summer...
...left early for Reno, Nevada, for a brief visit with Harvard Professor of Ethics emeritus Larry Lounge. Larry's doing pretty well considering the stroke he suffered while freebasing at 100 mph down Sunset Strip with a naked hermaphrodite. He soon plans to open a special ethics school for Democratic presidential hopefuls...