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There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...
...Hyatt hotel chain (76 in the U.S., 24 abroad) are only part of their wealth. With an $80 million stake in the Hyatt across the street, the 82-year-old Pritzker created the Hyatt Management Corp. to run the building and installed as its president Denzil Skinner, 50, a crisp, urbane executive who had spent 19 years running public assembly areas from Virginia to Indiana. Skinner has virtually halved the staff, and replaced politically appointed executives and contractors with trained managers. "What can be done with this building," says Skinner, "is limited only by the imagination...
...venom flies fast and free during this encounter of the caustic kind, building up to a classic display of feminine fisticuffs. The scene is handled perfectly by Ross, as the two friends suddenly dissolve into laughter when they mutually realize the absurd spectacle they are making of themselves. The crisp repartee of Arthur Laurents' script is at its sharpest throughout the bitter exchanges of stored jealousy and rancor, and their final reconciliation ends the film on a suitably touching note...
...that's when Harvard came alive, breaking the Huskies' swarming press with a rainbow assortment of crisp passes, jumpers, driving layups and shots off the glass...
...cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served?briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices. Thereafter come a few well-confected courses that cry, in Jonathan Swift's words, "Come, eat me!" And, of course, a wine or two to dignify their downing...