Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against her husband. She works as a barmaid and as a nudie model for the kind of moist-lipped amateur photographers who don't use film in their cameras. Then she begins taking men to bed more for fun than profit. "If I turned professional," she tells a chum, "I'd lose the pleasure of it." Joy dreams about Dave and visits him regularly, but when Tom gets out she lets him move in with her again...
Columbia has the height to battle Princeton. Dave Newmark--a boyhood chum of former Harvard captain Gene Dressler, has an unusually soft touch for a big man and may neutralize the Tigers' Chris Thomforde underneath...
...their next meeting, however, he takes her to a hotel and begins the affair in earnest. As the summer drifts on, Benjamin's parents begin to worry about his listless manner. They arrange a date with an old school chum (Katharine Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break...
Ever since one Chum Ming sailed east from his native Kwangtung in 1847 to grow up with the country, California's Chinese have been victimized by their language problems (even today, no more than 40% speak fluent English), their fear of deportation, and traditional kowtowing to fate and station. San Francisco's youngest, brightest Chinese-Americans leave for the suburbs at a rate of up to 15,000 a year, and Chinatown has become a way station for immigrants and a ghetto of the old and unemployed poor...
...miserable New York intellectual hovers on the Manhattan Bridge, preparing to take the plunge. An old college chum happens by, pulls him down and speaks of love-the panacea for all spiritual ills. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married," he swears, "but my wife won't give me a divorce." Solution: wife swapping, with the intellectual taking over for the husband and the husband going off to his mistress. But the cure turns out to be worse than the disease. The intellectual's misery is contagious, and six weeks later everyone...