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Burt Reynolds must be the first actor ever to have been influenced by a television star. In Shamus he often seems to be doing Johnny Carson impressions, as if too many appearances on the Tonight show have left him with a chronic case of mimesis. "Healthy devil, aren't you?" he murmurs to a top-heavy ingenue, who promptly melts at his wit. 'Thought we might do a little skindiving," he suggests to a hat-check girl, who replies, "Bring your snorkel...
...truth warps in which Matthew appears as an American adventurer soldiering in Spain in 1836, and as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 100 years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...
Still, unless Dunlop tames the inflationary spiral and the new dean reduces the chronic Faculty deficit, annual tuition increases are likely to remain a way of life for the hard-pressed Harvard parent...
According to Mitchell the Terriers are completely healthy and ready to go Harvard's Eric Fox and Wolfe are recouperating from the flu, but the only serious problem for Harrison may be chronic back pains suffered by Silver. The injury often keeps the sophomore from working at 100 per cent...
...those, like me, who in the pursuit of silence are sensitive to the least disturbance they are a virtual torment, and become almost a personal affront. Try changing your seat and they will follow you. (It may be that some people will let it bother them.) However, this chronic condition which is so inconsistent with the nature of a library I think deserves some remedial attention. Grenville Thoron Stall...