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This time last week, race track pundits were predicting that Saturday's Kentucky Derby would be the dullest in years. But yesterday afternoon, the ninety-fourth running of America's most famous horse race turned into one of the most bizarre incidents in sports history. Boston-owned Dancer's Image, who won the race with a dramatic closing rush in the stretch, was disqualified and placed last on the charge of being drugged--presumably by his trainer...
...week's most entertaining special dealt with seemingly the dullest subject for TV: The Strange Case of the English Language, a collaboration by CBS Commentator Harry Reasoner and Writer-Producer Andrew Rooney. Best bit: film clips of well-known speakers in the throes of foot-in-mouth disease...
...summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest dirty book ever written."* Finally, there were all the "Ins" (the bein, the kissin, the wedin, the dance-in, the shop-in, the drinkin, the love-in, the sing-in), and-with unerring glee-the moaning over the Generation...
Beyond the confines of Cambridge, today will be the Ivy League's dullest day. The remainder of the loop's card matches three "good" teams against three "bad" teams--the kind of day predicters need to boost their percentages...
...demon for detail, Floriot furiously drives a research staff of six lawyers, known as "l'usine Floriot" (the Floriot factory). Gifted with prodigious memory, he can simplify the most complex case for the dullest of jurors. While other French lawyers deliver elegantly vague speeches to nodding, berobed judges, Floriot deals in facts, not forensic flourishes. In a profession heavily weighted toward lawyers with social standing, Floriot has succeeded entirely on drive and shrewdness...