Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cooke was photographing the Wall from the western side, a soldier from the other side kept blinking a mirror into his lens. One frustration for the visiting journalist in East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy." But, said Nickel, "when my conversation with people touched on sensitive matters, he discreetly hid his head behind a newspaper to make us feel at ease, although he later nonchalantly asked what had been said...
...instance, the College Government Handbook for 1932-1933 states: "The college dormitories close for the night at ten o'clock, and every student is required to be in her house at that hour, except in the following instances: 1. Seniors and juniors, if accompanied by an escort or a chaperone, or in groups of two or more, may return from the moving pictures in Wellesley Hills or Natick until 11:00 p.m. and from entertainments in Boston until 1:00 a.m., registering at their dormitories. 4. A student registered for an overnight absence from the college must spend the night...
Tomatoes/Potatoes. In her house the walls, telephones and pianos are always white, the butler is always comic, and her escort perennially in top hat and tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy...
...make the first curtsy at this season's International Debutante Ball. Her sister Patricia had preceded her by two years as the U.S. representative at the gala, which presented 56 debs from twelve nations. Julie, a Smith College freshman, may have one-upped her sister in the escort department. At her side stood David Eisenhower, 18, Ike's only grandson, now a freshman at Amherst...
...free his writer from this sexual block, Perkins soon follows his own nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This is a citizen's arrest." But every so often the gags are too simple Simon...