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...remember when Harvard track last won a Greater Boston championship outdoors. Yesterday began inauspiciously, a cold, damp afternoon at B.C., when the thinclads started winning and never stopped, piled up 97 points to B.U.'s 72, and won the meet...
Backstage just after an exhausting performance, the star brims with energy. She hugs well-wishers and exults at the surprise appearance of a California friend. Wiping her damp ginger hair away from her forehead, she smiles easily, deep lines creasing the corners of her famous large brown eyes. Sipping a Tab, she jokes about an opening-night telegram sent by Actor Edward Asner (Lou Grant): NICE TO KNOW ALL THOSE DANCING LESSONS HAVE PAID OFF AT LAST. When one visitor notes how plain her dressing room is, Mary Tyler Moore laughs. "I've had beautiful dressing rooms in terrible...
More heretically, Williams believes that "child labor laws should be reexamined. Back in the 1930s, they protected young people from working in cold and damp or dangerous mines. Today these same laws protect them from working in air-conditioned offices. If a 14-year-old is not benefiting from school, perhaps he should be allowed to leave and get work in a car wash. Perhaps then he will discover he cannot get ahead without an education, and that lesson in life will motivate him to return to school...
...there is no snow. Winter has forgotten its lines. On damp, gray days at the beginning of December we said to each other, "It's coming" and "Looks like we're in for it," pretending to be worried at the approach of the first northeaster of the season. The fact is that everyone welcomes the melodrama of a big snowstorm. It is not just the sounds of the town and the highway that are hushed. The raging of ego and the clank of ambition are stilled at least for a while...
...Holy Land, and a Sanhedrin of Bible scholars and other experts was consulted on costumes, sets and historical sites. The film deals frankly with the signs and miracles in Luke. At Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River, a dove flutters down to the Nazarene's damp shoulder. In other scenes, fishes and loaves multiply, the halt and the blind are healed and Christ physically returns from the dead...