Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing the IAB on weekends--don't forget there are people around here who don't go to the football games on Saturday or don't study all Sunday. Should their daily dedication and workouts at the IAB be thwarted for no apparent reason except to give them a chance to see the Radcliffe...
...they find their table in a New York restaurant. The latest issue of Andy Warhol's Interview continues in this tasteless vein for 48 pages of newsprint that would like to be glossy, and contains gossip that would like to be sophisticated. It ends up sounding like People magazine, except that artsy condescension replaces human interest...
...proved in practice. Early this year Blackley formed a company, Liberty Graphics of Charlotte, to make and market red checks. To date he has sold some 60,000 (at a nickel apiece for orders of 500), Except for the color, the check is a blushing copy of the personal checks that his customers send in to be reproduced; the red-faced checks even include the bank's magnetized numbers for automatic sorting. It is possible to microfilm the checks with special equipment, but most banks find that regular processing produces a gray blur. Bankers speculate that since banks...
Keaton was on the set for 76 days, playing in every scene of the film except one. Halfway through she cracked a rib when Actor Richard Gere, who plays a stud named Tony, threw her to the floor. "It was my fault," she said. "I knew how to take the fall, but I blew it. Besides, it's fun to do that wild, physical stuff. And it's nice to get really angry and scream, and then walk away from the responsibility for all that when the shooting is over...
...until he was more than 40. Born in Ulm, Germany, Eckstein fled Hitler in 1938, graduated from Princeton and in 1955 earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, where, as he says in his fast-paced, slightly accented English, "I found a home." He has taught there ever since, except for 18 months in the mid-1960s, when he was a member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. (Professor Eckstein's popular course in freshman economics usually draws well over 800 students...