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...Brideshead Revisited. I walked to the center of the common room and saw three doors. Hey, I thought, I am right on the mark! Three bedrooms and a single for this earlybird. I slowly opened the first door, and in place of my desk, a sink, instead of a dresser, a tub, and alas, in the place of my bed, a toilet. It then dawned on me that Harvard had cheated me of my dream single...
...Kirkland House, three 15 inch gold chains, valued at $250, were taken from a dresser top in the K-Entry between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. on Friday...
...father, a crane operator named Cassius Fiste, died of a heart attack at 42. "One day you were a family," she recalls, "living in a little house at the bottom of a hill. The next day it was all gone." The furniture, including Erma's bed and dresser, was immediately repossessed, and her half sister went off to live with her natural mother. Erma and her mother, 25-year-old Erma Fiste, shared a bedroom in her grandmother's house, and each day Mother Erma would get up at 5 a.m., fix breakfast for her daughter, see that...
Reagan peered down the cramped basement stairs and remembered that his father Jack, a hefty fellow, had to back down to tend the coal furnace. What might OSHA think, the President wondered. In the bedroom with its pennants and simple oak dresser, Reagan drifted back 60 years. "I read a book about Indians and started to build a tepee in here," he said. "Nelle vetoed that." Reagan rubbed a hand over a huge brass ball on the bedstead in his parents' room and recalled that he had taken one from the original bed frame, put it on a broomstick...
...Dresser cannot fill its noble Shakespearean outline. Harwood would have been well advised to stop short of his last-act fling at tragedy and rest on his strength, which is for comically melodramatic commentary on the vagaries and excesses of the theatrical life. Still, he has wisely turned his original vehicle from a unicycle into a bicycle built for two, and Courtenay and Finney give it a thrilling ride. -By Richard Schickel