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Heart-wrenching drama can be found in Comrade Ed, the touching story of a wise, talking horse from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
...University forgets about the one that could really use that service--the shy kid from the sheltered glades of suburbia who lacks the family or prep school connections for a showing of the ropes. Without it, Freshman Week is a blizzard of stammered conversations and embarrassed silences, a cocktail party scripted by Samuel Beckett...
...decades the public arena has been his brother's territory. It was usually Bob who chatted with reporters, Bob who worked the crowds at cocktail parties. It was also Bob Tisch who created a growing New York social institution, the power breakfast. One favored spot for early morning conferences is the Loews-owned Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, where the rich and famous, along with people who merely aspire to be, can be found eating two eggs and bacon (price...
...dinner-time visit last night to a house reknowned for Clove-smoking, avant-guarde denizens revealed this undeniable verity of veritas. Patrons entering the revamped and resplendent dining area were first informed by an illuminated menu what "Chef Stone will be serving" them: shrimp cocktail, prime ribs with bernaise sauce, asparagus on a bed of greens, tomatos stuffed with spinach, potatos a la something and, for dessert, white chocolate mousse...
Sixty-eight labor, student and alumni activists overwhelmed the three security guards around Memorial Hall just 15 minutes before guests were to arrive from the pre-dinner cocktail party. Even after enough police had arrived to remove the protesters, they were delayed by Harvard's "chain of command," which prevents them from acting in such situations without authorization from a series of specific University officials. Before a decision could be reached, scores of prestigious alumni had appeared and confronted the activists--some physically and many others verbally...