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Polly Hackett and Carol Freedenberg, the McGovern media mothers, have the sole responsibility of making sure that the press is kept aware. They travel on the buses with reporters, flirt with them, serve drinks and give out the releases that Doughrety and his staff write. When Doug Kneeland of The New York Times wants to know when he can get the name of a city where McGovern will be giving a speech later in the evening on national T.V., Hackett and Freedenberg will have to find...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Stumping the Airwaves With Candidate McGovern | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

...word of warning to the freshman who enters into the freshman football program here: be prepared for a zoo-like maze of bodies and coaches seminiscent of battles in Roman colosseums. A lot of people flirt with the idea of playing football here. Consequently, there are usually over a hundred (a figure that sometimes soars frighteningly close to 150) candidates groveling for positions. There cannot be, and unavoidably is not, enough time to give everyone an equal opportunity to prove himself. There are no cuts in Harvard football, and freshmen find that with their late reporting date and an opening...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: An Everyman's Guide To Sports at Harvard | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...enthusiasm of Rochman and comapny extends from the revue to the neighborhood. They have dandied Mather dining hall up with tablecloths and baskets of polished fruit that turn out to be authentic. Tables ring the ciruclar stage and the actors flirt with members of the audience--which could be dangerous if someone beveraged on the complimentary DiSabato Rose gets jealous. But Wednesday night, with tuxedoed patrons filling the tables and Art at the fore it was a sort of provincial triumph for Mather House. It's a long slouch back from Alphaville...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

...yourself a President that will speak up for you before it's too late. You don't need a new face; you need somebody that's been tested." As for the likes of Wallace: "Be careful about these cuties. I don't mind if you flirt around a little bit, but you better just come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Jarring Message from George | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...flow absorbs a sense of Havana at the end of Batista's reign: overripe, tainted, almost innocent. The time is generally city-night in Cabrera Infante's narrations. The punning speakers are young dementia peacocks: an actor, a photographer, an assortment of nightclub chicks. They drink, flirt, gossip, listen to music, flip tag lines from American movies at each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dementia Peacocks | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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