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...black-tie dinners, he has been known to flop to the floor, tuck his knees to his chest and roll from side to side. He jokes about one day posing with Jane Fonda, both in leotards, displaying the fitness of their sleek bodies. He has signed a contract to write a diet book in which he will explain in detail his theory that if you drink and eat at the same sitting, you get fat because the liquid washes away digestion-aiding enzymes in the mouth...
...first event, if it is a flop, will reflect badly on us," she added...
...need for flowery language. But every so often a poem is skimpy. Because Pastan's only point of view is the poet looking out the voice dues not shift. The only source of excitement is what she sees. When the language becomes too terse, a poem might flop unless read very slowly. Fortunately, there are not many of these...
...dubbed the two candidates Loudmouth Lowell and Terrible Toby. Behind the name-calling, two-term incumbent Republican Lowell Weicker, 51, and four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett, 38, are locked in a dead-heat classic of American political theater. Weicker was ambushed recently at a campaign stop by Flip-Flop the Clown, a costumed Moffett staffer seeking to symbolize the incumbent's election-year renunciations of his 1981 votes for the President's budget and tax cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick...
Today, Wacker says, the statistics are exactly the reverse: freshmen are the least common class to seek psychological help, and seniors are the most common. Wacker offers two possible explanations for this flip-flop: the increasing uncertainty of finding a desirable job or place in graduate school on the senior end, and improved secondary-school counseling on the freshman...