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...longer allow unaccompanied non-residents to use its dining facilities. As more and more Harvard House dining halls close their doors to Radcliffe residents seeking some kind of nourishment and relaxation, (thereby ruling out the Union) other house dining halls will become obviously overcrowded. That Radcliffe residents are frowned upon for eating lunch at other houses may not be apparent to the average river house member, but try sometime presenting a bursars card to the dining hall attendant and repeating the words "Currier House". Notice the frown that will automatically appear on the face of this person...
...promenading, she gazes about her at a glorious sunset. Clara finds this reaction extreme but correct: "Most authorities do maintain that a lady ought not to divert her gaze from the direction in which she is walking." Still, her uncle need not have raged; "a word-at most a frown -would have sufficed...
...visual jokes are imaginative and successful. A "bullet" sequence parodies some of the cliches of silent film comedy; a threatening group sneaks up behind someone who turns around with a frown, and they scamper away in terror. This is set to music that is its perfect complement. But elsewhere the music is less successful: it is scattered, somehow, never coming together to a really memorable tune or grand chorus, rarely providing the aural punch to go along with visual jokes...
...when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having any fun at all," Steven looked distinctly annoyed and allowed a fine frown to crease his angelic brow...
With those words, President Gerald Ford last week reaffirmed his promise to restore a sense of national unity and purpose-to replace, as his friend and adviser Bryce Harlow expresses it, a national frown with a national smile. To that end, Ford maintained a headlong pace throughout the second full week of his presidency...