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...winter with her hand-knit beanie cum pastee sparkles on the front. I saw her in spring when the beanie changed into a circa aught six auto veil. She minced from Falcon to classroom, classroom to Falcon. I never saw her go to the ladies room, the cafeteria, or the teachers' lounge. She ate lunch at her desk in pristine splendour and delicately licked her Harpy-like fingers after she concluded her meal. I used to watch her through the window in the door during junior high, giggling with my best friend, enthralled. She terrified...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Pax in Terra: Even to You, Miss Davis | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...riots all know how the story will end. They are tragic victims because they cannot possibly alter the inevitable course of events. For one reason or another, they are all stuck at Madison. No reformist program--the human relations office that will soon be set up in the cafeteria, the assembly programs on Martin Luther King that will be performed in the auditorium, and the parent-teacher meetings that will be conducted--can stop the emerging sequence of events. There is nothing mystifying about why this certain pattern must set in. It is a result of everyone in James Madison...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Prisoners of Class | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

Explosions shattered the cool early-morning calm at South Viet Nam's Bien Hoa airbase one day last week. For 20 minutes, 35 Viet Cong 122-mm. rockets blasted the sprawling base, destroying four F-5 jet fighter-bombers, heavily damaging a workshop and cafeteria, and killing one airman and one child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Death and a Dubious Cease-Fire? | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...first assignments for the funeral parlor, Christian is willingly seduced by Fanny Sourpuss, the young widow of an old multimillionaire garment manufacturer. Sued by the widow of a rich corpse that Christian has butchered in the embalming, he wins the suit by charming judge and jury. Women, including cafeteria acquaintances and wives of coworkers, fall at his feet. Christian is the parody of the fairy tale hero, lusting after fallen princesses in honky-tonk New York...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Of Fairy Tales and Skyscrapers | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...struggling insurance company clerk, C.C. "Chuck" Baxter. Baxter wins his way to happiness and a key to the executive washroom by loaning out his $86.50 a month apartment to libidinous vice presidents and their ambitious secretaries. In the process, Baxter manages to fall in love with the very cafeteria waitress who is involved with the almighty Director of Personnel. Aha! Complication! Misunderstanding! Humor! Agony! Unfortunately, we don't get all that...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Promising Promises Unfulfilled | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

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