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...toward an encompassing smile, as Margie Lindsay, 14, daughter of New York's photogenic mayor, made her modeling debut at a press preview of Maximilian's new collection. Margie modeled coats of calf, lamb and otter ("Mink is for 20-year-olds," said the furrier) to fond applause before being hustled back to school. "She wanted to do it," said her mother. "I told her she'd have to ask her father. He's such a stage buff; of course he said...
...matter how sluggish they may appear, Pinter's people arrive on stage primed for combat, and words are their weapons. For a Tennessee Williams, language is a rhetorically scented bouquet of roses to be showered on an audience in fond profusion. To Pinter, language is sniper fire: laconic, staccato, precise, designed to cut down the people one hates. He uses two kinds of speech: words that are dead and words that can kill. The dead words are the burnt-toast banalities of daily life: "I've got your corn flakes ready. Here's your...
...story about the rugged little frontier farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...
...Fond Memories. By his own count, Hardy made three mistakes in Notre Dame's opening game against California. If so, the beleaguered Bears missed them. What they saw was Hardy hurdling blockers to dump Cal's quarterback for a 16 yd. loss, intercepting one pass and smashing down two others as Notre Dame romped to a 41-8 victory...
...completed 29 out of 63 passes last week) and End Jim Seymour (who caught eight for 114 yds.), Kevin Hardy is a stick-out. It is not just because he is the biggest man on the team and is missing two front teeth, but more because he calls up fond memories of the days when giants roamed the Irish loam. Notre Dame's athletic director, Edward ("Moose") Krause calls Hardy "one of the greatest athletes we've ever had here"-no mean compliment considering that Notre Dame has produced the likes of Knute Rockne, Johnny Lujack...