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...middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...buxom, energetic, middle-aged woman in a sleek lavendar gown with a Vellucci streamer pinned across her front did a bouncy boogaloo past the bandstand. "Want to know my name? I'm Mary Castriatta, chairman of the Cambridge Housing Authority," she said...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Singin' Along With 'Big Al' | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

...late supper: buxom Emmy Destinn, one of the greatest operatic dramatic sopranos of the time (1907), and the slender young Polish pianist and boulevardier Arthur Rubinstein. Rubinstein gallantly began to discuss music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Intoxicated with Romance | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...music chairman had conceivably never been to a baseball game, so his explanation didn't go over well, and the scene from Susannah was inevitably anticlimactic. Susannah also seemed to have some anticlimaxes built in. Apparently it was set in Tennessee, and suspension of disbelief in a buxom soprano singing lushly romantic arias about her upcoming journey to Nashville proved exceptionally difficult...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Nights at the Opera | 2/15/1973 | See Source »

...ADMIRERS of "The Dickmobile" haven't all been oldsters. On Sunset Strip one evening, Paige was approached by a buxom young woman who jumped on "The Dickmobile's" hood and demanded that her picture be taken with...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: Auto Art: Defiling America's Deity | 2/9/1973 | See Source »

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