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...super subs, gone. Visiting student Laurie Gregg, after a spectacular one-year stay, left for the soccer fields of the University of North Carolina. Gone. Senior-to-be Sue Rockwell, the team's best pure defensive player; Joan Elliott, the top freshman scorer of last season; and Ann Diamond, the starting goalkeeper as a freshman for much of last year, all decided to take 1981 off. Three more starters, gone. A week into preseason practice, sophomore Beth Carillo, a projected starter, went down with a knee injury. That's seven if you're counting. Makes for a long paragraph...
...most interesting editorial package we could and, damn it, it didn't work. It was a bad marketing plan. We made a mistake and we're going to correct it." He said a year's experience was a "fair test," but many staffers disagreed. Said Edwin Diamond, former associate editor of Tonight: "Management did not give it enough time. 60 Minutes was given ten years to find its audience...
...close to 1,000 presents worth an estimated $8 million. This is barely a quarter of what has been received. The royal booty ranges from a slightly withered-looking, heart-shaped potato given by two little sisters from Cheshire to Saudi Crown Prince Fahd's nuptial offering: diamond and sapphire jewelry in a green malachite case, estimated to cost at least $1.5 million. Between the lowly spud and the regal ice are such newlywed staples as goblets, china, tableware, pots and pans, a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner-but no toaster. Nonessentials included a 2-ft.-long solid gold...
Phototherapy, in fact, is not new; an English surgeon (and pioneer photographer) named Hugh Diamond used pictures of madwomen in his work with mental patients in the mid-19th century. But photography has only recently come into serious psychotherapeutic use, and it still tends to involve patients' responses to images of themselves or members of their immediate family. No one before Walker has collected reactions as systematically, or from as many people...
...reason that the ice cream in the best scoop shops tastes so good does not seem very mysterious. The player piano helps, and so does the chance to feel like Diamond Jim Brady and still get change back from a $5 bill. But what is most important is that the ice cream is likely to have been made the day before from the best ingredients that the local markets are offering ("Use overripe peaches!" yells Vermont's Cohen to Mattus...