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Still, survival was honor enough. Consider the chagrin of Texas Western's Miners, the defending N.C.A.A. champs...
...social life is focused on a small group of friends-Edwards, Mike Nichols, Carol Burnett, Composer-Conductor Andre Previn and his wife Dory. At Christmastime, she invites them all in, and "to everyone's annoyance and chagrin, I make mulled wine, all icky and sticky. I'm the only one who likes it." When she can manage to avoid the endless squads of fans, she sneaks off to concerts (preferences: Mahler, Rachmaninoff), but no longer goes to the movies. Instead, for privacy's sake, she runs films in her home-"on the smooth wall of the playroom...
...rest inside is a bit more predictable, The usual calculated whimsy, the trivia, the place names, are all back making their bids for laughs, (But I did meet a girl who was thrilled that the Lampoon Playboy parody had put Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on the map.) As for the worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty...
...Crisscrossing California from Roubidoux to Rialto, from Taft to Twentynine Palms, Republican Ronald Reagan, 55, has been running 18 hours a day as if the Dead End Kids were after him (they were in at least two of his movies). And to the surprise of Republican pros and the chagrin of the Democratic hierarchy, the candidate from Warner Bros, has turned out to be the most magnetic crowd puller California has seen since John F. Kennedy first stumped the state...
...markups as high as 50%-double what German retailers were getting. So sweet was the deal that in 1961, when another French firm started underselling Consten with Grundig wares bought from German wholesalers, outraged Consten officials charged it with unfair practices in a French court-to their later chagrin. Asked for an opinion on the case, the EEC in Brussels brushed aside bitter German protests, decided that the Grundig-Consten deal created "a monopoly within French territory" in violation of Common Market free-trade accords. The Market's court of justice in Luxembourg thereupon ruled the exclusive dealership illegal...