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...Demeter, chattily. When she directs him to the college bookstore, he finds it peacefully short on texts and long on stuffed Teddy bears. Later the sight of some dusty relics in the school trophy room gives Greene a shiver. Still he is hardly prepared for the final evening, a candlelit, costumed rally in the chapel. There the frustrated Fox rashly taunts the girls about their antiSemitism, and promptly finds himself brutally assaulted by banal coeds turned bacchantes...
Originally proposed in 1802 by French Engineer Albert Mathieu, whose plan envisioned horse-drawn coaches passing through a candlelit tube, the tunnel idea has a long history of revivals and rejections. In the 1850s another French engineer, Aimé Thomé de Gamond, drew up a scheme for a railway tunnel. Queen Victoria promised De Gamond the blessing of "all the ladies of England" if he could carry it off, but the whole thing was quashed by suspicions that Napoleon III might have in mind a cross-Channel invasion...
Part of it will come from a restaurant that the family has bought in downtown San Francisco. In preparation for opening day later this month, members are honing their skills in the mansion's huge kitchen and candlelit dining room, where an ex-addict maitre d'hotel conducts family members and their guests to small tables, and waitresses serve them elegantly...
There is more behind the quick acceptances than a sense of security and the lure of a free candlelit lunch. In San Francisco, there are far more single men than single women, and eating with the TDOs gives a young woman the opportunity to size up a variety of young, affluent eligibles. "Here I was, one of two girls surrounded by some 20 guys, and all of them good-looking," burbles Nancy Noren, 27, one of the TDOs' recent guests. "I mean, like...
Nightclubs are coming back. Couples are holding hands under candlelit tables and listening to songs they can hum along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn...