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...pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story and serve a dual function: to entertain and to teach the young...
...convenience store, manned by two high school girls, a loud tape deck and the skinnier girl's boyfriend, I asked what I could do to entertain myself for three hours before the train came back...
...reflects a taste for the cultural artifacts of earlier eras. Jimi Hendrix posters keep company with theater reviews from West Side Story. His unusual methods -- using song lyrics to teach literary themes, for instance -- are popular with students. But he fears he may soon wilt under the pressure to entertain. "My first year I used to come home hoarse," he says. "I can't keep up five shows a day and not get burned...
...Organization To Entertain Harvard...
...Meyers still remembers the us- and-them mentality of the Nixon campaign. "The press pool would be put in the rear of the plane and kept away from things," Meyers recalls. Morale became so bad that the Nixon people added another public relations man to the staff to entertain reporters. "One of his talents was making funny little animals out of balloons," Meyers laughs. "But once you've seen one little animal, you've satisfied a lifetime need...