Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated...
Tenuous Alliance. For his project, Corry zeroed in on 85th Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, largely because of its diversity. A kind of Manhattan in microcosm, the block includes among its 1,500 black, white and Puerto Rican residents a number of welfare families, a man who owns his own ad agency, some composers, some middle-class types, and a few hookers and junkies. Corry rented an apartment on the street, then set out to find "The Real City" from the stoops and sidewalks...
Princeton-Cornell: It's almost Columbus Day, and Ed. will be out to do justice for his ethnic following. Besides, Ed will be faced with a challenge from Princeton's Scandinavian Bjorklund. Not only the Ivy title and the Heismann trophy are at stake; it's a matter of historical pride...
Cambridge Italian residents have been up in arms against the Elis ever since Yale released a map three years ago that claims to prove the vikings discovered America. "They came out with this story just before Columbus Day," Vellucci said recently, "and we haven't forgotten...
...Informed that some Harvard-Yale contests are played on Friday, the mayor said that the contingent may go down early. "We want to do the thing up right," he saad. "We'll stay overnight and cheer against every Yale team. They never should have done that to us and Columbus...