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Yesterday morning, students at N.Y.U. seized three buildings, including the Courant Institute of Mathematics, which houses the university's computer center, demanding $100.000 ransom for the Black Panther Defense Fund before releasing the buildings...
...cute names. Dan is short and stocky, with flowing Brillcream coiffure. Jerry is thin; he wore a red and white striped round-collared button down, and conjured up images of Kingston Trio. We said farewell to the two other legal assistants who strolled off in their six button au-courant east side uniforms and their enormous, pastel blue, round sunglasses...
...about identifying the allegedly prominent Procaccino supporters? I consider myself au courant in metropolitan affairs, but many of the names are not known to me. West of the Alleghenies, I expect, most of the names go unrecognized by your average reader. Parochial notoriety, after all, is not national renown...
Strict constructionists agree with Russell Young of the Seattle Times: "People who submit amusement ads know that we have a strict code, and they know the rules." John Coughlin states his paper's policy bluntly: "You can't sell sex in the Hartford Courant." Loren Osborn, ad manager of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, takes a different stand. "I will allow just about anything in a movie ad. If the movie might offend anyone, let's show it like it is in the ad so they can find out beforehand and not be rudely surprised once they...
...television newscasting nowadays, everybody's got his own private beat. but NBC's laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything...