Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their stories totally straight. McLemore said it was a group of bandits who pounced upon them when they landed, "like starving people who find some meat." He claimed that he had escaped with Spradley in a truck and that his companion had been shot after a wild chase. They were left for dead in a desert until the Indians happened upon them, bringing Spradley to a hospital and kidnaping McLemore...
WHEN THE PAPER CHASE hit the big screen, many a preprofessional conscience flinched. Perhaps some even paused a moment in their diligent march through college to law school--if it's really that bad, is it worth the pain? Several years later, juridical ambition springs anew, however, and John Jay Osborn Jr. '67 is teasing our insecurities again with another novel about the brutal rituals of the law profession. You may make it through Harvard Law, but can you stand the initiation rites of your first year in a prestigious Wall Street firm...
Osborn seems to do nothing more than reuse the ingredients of The Paper Chase for his new novel--a glamorous setting, a love interest, a perceptive but inexperienced protagonist coming up against uncompromising traditions. The Associates reads like a novelization of the bad TV movie which it will undoubtedly become...
Headstrong and impulsive, Aries are likely to race across lawns and trample KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs. Geminis bark a lot. Libras sniff inquisitively under tables and into closets. Leos chase animals while Scorpios pester for second helpings. And if that doesn't sound like your sign of the zodiac, not to worry. Seer Jeane Dixon, famous and wealthy from casting people, has now gone to the dogs. "Dogs, after all," insists Dixon in her new book, Horoscopes for Dogs, "live under the same stars that we do." Take her Teddy, a mutt of indiscriminate breed. Dixon obviously doesn...
...Gardiner does with himself is his own business. The reasons one has for joining a final club such as the Porcellian are best passed over in charitable silence. Why must we be assured of his affection for "people with a certain financial background"? No doubt he will row for Chase Manhattan as hard as he rows for Harvard, but is this really the sort of thing that the Crimson wants to hold up as virtuous example...