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...dreams as phantoms, his mansion their graveyard. Embalmed in midsummer mists, the place even looked something of a mirage: shimmering on Saturday evenings with wealth and youth and beauty, and so heavy, up close, with the heat and sweat of life; dream and disillusionment ineffably caught in that blinking crystal of green at the end of Daisy's pier...
...ROTC squad. The second was when he was accused by a student-faculty discipline committee?and later exonerated?of participating in a sit-in that obstructed a Marine Corps recruiter visiting the campus. Weed was found to be nothing more than a bystander. He was teaching at the Crystal Springs school for girls in Hillsborough when he first met Patty. By last December, the two were engaged, and he had enrolled at Berkeley. Since Patty's kidnaping, Weed has deeply involved himself in the attempt to free her. On April 7, reported New Times, he secretly flew to Mexico City...
Imagine dinner at a grand luxe restaurant. The satiny table linen is blindingly white, the chinaware and Baccarat crystal positively glisten, the maitre d' and waiters are impeccably dressed. The diners sit down, admire the pleasing surroundings, and then comes the piéce de résistance: a greasy hamburger, accompanied by limp French fries and a fizzy concoction dosed with cyclamates. That, roughly, was what it was like at an eagerly anticipated dance event: the gala opening last week of the revitalized Harkness Ballet at the palatial new Harkness Theater near Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...master bedroom. Suede and leather love seats, divans and marble tables are conveniently placed, and for entertainment, Sony videotape monitors and a Thomas electric organ are available. In the gourmet galley, the chef can whip up virtually any dish from terrine of duck to soul food-served with Waterford crystal, Reed and Barton silver and gilded Noritake china...
...Bronx Boys fill all the holes in their infield, which would be a monumental task, and everything else holds up, they will win it all. As of now, however, the crystal ball points to a long, hard, and ultimately fruitless battle for the Yanks. Prediction: third...