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From Playboy Magazine's "Women of the Ivy League" issue to Harvard's splashy 350th celebration, it was an unusually unusual year for the University community in 1986. Here's a tongue-in-cheek review of some of the year's best kept secrets...
Fresno boldly disdains a laugh track, and if it were not for the network's tongue-in-cheek promos, a casual viewer might miss the joke. The cast plays it expertly deadpan, with only an occasional wink at the audience. Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame. The California wines of Falcon Crest have puckered into raisins. The Southern accents (in California?) have migrated from Dallas. Garr's drop-dead wardrobe and a female catfight are straight out of Dynasty. And when Tiffany searches for her father at a costume party, she assembles...
...from overuse on the trail. "Democracy, opportunity, America . . ." At a luncheon for 250 elderly people, the tousled candidate gives his stump speech in a booming voice, chopping the air in disjointed fashion, stressing almost every word. His speeches feel like workouts. Then Kennedy bounds from the podium. No cheek goes unkissed...
...terrible precedent" by letting Moscow get away with hostage taking, and Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips expressed himself more pungently to the New York Daily News. Said Phillips: "This Administration's foreign policy has been to kiss the Russian bear's bottom, and he keeps turning the other cheek." Administration officials replied that the U.S. had secured the release of Daniloff without any trial, while Zakharov had really been exchanged for Dissident Orlov...
...Were that not enough to make one's mascara run, Pesce also observed that it had not hurt Miss Tennessee that her great-uncle happens to be Singer Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, Cash, 21, a devout Southern Baptist who aspires to be a talk-show host, was turning the other cheek and explaining her victory in terms of positive thinking. "I thought I was going to win, because I don't think you can win if you don't think you can win," she said last week. "That's why I didn't cry. I was prepared...