Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opera--even light opera--is pretty tough for college students to put on, however, and if you're a Strauss buff or just can't resist live vocal music, Lowell's Fledermaus might be worth it. But if you're not a vocal nut, and think you'd depend on stage qualities to hold your attention, stay away...
Psychiatrist Immanuel Velikovsky, continue to have a cultlike following. In his original 1950 book, Worlds in Collision, and its popular successors, Velikovsky argued that catastrophe is the central agent in evolution. Says Warshofsky, himself a Velikovsky buff: "Catastrophe is an essential force in nature, not aberrational, but inevitable...
Drawing styles themselves range from Jeffrey Hale's which in Blind Man's Buff veers as close to Saturday morning cartoons as Center Screen gets, to Maureen Sherwood's freehand pen-and-ink for her Sempre Libera. John Canemaker's Confessions of a Stardreamer has the quick sketch and metamorphos is that keeps the cliches of the jaded actress on the soundtrack alive...
...mother ship's arrival in nearby waters. The camper was in contact with small trucks and vans waiting along the coast for the merchandise. As the ship reached the southern tip of Assateague Island, five miles off Virginia, the camper, using code that would bewilder a CB buff, arranged meetings with the contact speedboats and guided them back to rendezvous points on the shore...
...opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...