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...comes from a different part of town-the streets of the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...
...housing system," the work done thus far seems to indicate that the focus of the study will be the problems in the Quadrangle Houses. Last week Scott and South House Committee Co-President Nancy E. Toff '76 spent nearly an hour examining the "more blighted areas" of South House -- decrepit bathrooms, dusty basement study rooms and the like. This week Scott will have dinner with several residents of South House to take suggestions for improvements...
...average fan, and most of you will be spectators for the majority of your time here, there is a strange attraction to the decrepit facilities that host Harvard's battles with the dreaded...
...obviously been brought to the cave by its manlike inhabitants. De Lumley doubts that the cave dwellers were good hunters or fishermen; the condition of the animals' teeth and jaws indicates that they were very old. Says the paleontologist: "The cavemen either killed them when they were pretty decrepit or perhaps found them already dead." The whales and seals could well have been washed onto the beach, where the cavemen then hacked them to pieces. In fact, says De Lumley, "one may legitimately ask whether they hunted...
...plot, if it can be called that, is harmless enough. One Don Pepe Hernandez, a would-be impresario in the tiny Honduran coastal town of Trujillo, has rented a decrepit nightclub with money from his uncle, the owner of the local Coca-Cola bottling plant. His show, which he calls La Parada de Estrellas, or Parade of Stars, is advertised as featuring "international cabaret stars," who turn out to be four members of his family wearing various transparent disguises. The play consists of one full run-through of Hernandez's show...