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Modified crazy. Sunday night there was a party thrown by a woman who claims to have built the world's largest closet, leading to the world's largest bathroom. I inspected both and could recall none larger. The night before, I went to a charity ball attended by hundreds of handsome people in gowns and tails and by an elephant, a tiger and a leopard, also in tails. The cats appeared to have been doped. The evening's highlight was an auction that raised $30,000 in ten minutes and offered a trip to Europe (which...
...seemed to be particularly dog-eared. Gromyko's repeated references to those speeches underscored the degree to which the U.S. President's slaps at Soviet power and prestige have stirred anger and animosity in Moscow. Few Soviet officials like to be reminded that they once considered Reagan a potential "closet" Nixon who might correct the foreign policy zigzags of the Carter Administration and return to something like détente...
There's whole lot of other interesting stuff too. Harvard has a lot of skeletons in the closet. Really, Like the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Or the Institute on College Admissions (some people actually think that's what the whole summer school is about). There's also some interesting stuff that's not there--tenured professors from Harvard, for instance. I count eight on the summer school faculty listed towards the back of this book, but for the life of me I can't figure out what they all teach. Adam Ulam is cited in the back...
...Carlos was known is an avid sportsman (and still is, although a pelvic injury last year has slowed him somewhat). He was a member of Spain's 1972 Dragon-class Olympic sailing team. A black belt in karate, it was said its kept his broken boards in a mansion closet. He is also an avid motorcyclist...
Students staged several of Kopits's plays, including On the Runway of Life. You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, which went on to become one of his first critical successes...