Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation is not much better on campus. He somehow remembers a pusher going door to door in Kirkland House selling heroin--curious, in retrospect, considering you can't even bum a cigarette in Kirkland House nowadays. During punching season, he is shocked by a conversation with Porcellian Club members, who tell him he must learn to party if he joins. He declines. He bemoans the decadence symbolized by Linda Lovelace's 1974 visit to Harvard...
...meeting, organized by the Cambridge Republican City Committee and the Women's Republican Club, drew a mix of local residents and curious Harvard students...
...these officials live by deceit, they are slaves of self-deception. Trying to identify the incognito inspector, they settle on a newcomer at the local hotel who has overdrawn his credit and is foppish, imperious and curious. Actually, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlestakov (Max Wright) is a petty clerk who has gone broke gambling. When the mayor approaches him, Khlestakov assumes that he is about to be thrown into jail. As the mutual misconceptions multiply, the fun flies like...
...staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around and feed off the winner, tearing off little scraps like state jobs and discreet kickbacks--they weren't there. It must be too long a drive from Dukakis headquarters...
Indeed, of the 60,000 FOI requests processed by the bureau, about 2,500 of them have come from curious criminals. In one city, which FBI officials refuse to name, 30 organized crime figures-the Who's Who of the area's underworld-filed FOI forms. The Drug Enforcement Administration has received requests for Government information from, among others, Mafiosi Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Rene Picaretto of Buffalo, and Carmine Persico of Brooklyn...