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...cannot demand change without proposing an alternative. I say satisfy everyone by renting out the entire squad to area high schools. Not only would Harvard generate a little added income (new billiards table for the-Faculty Club?), it would also alleviate long-standing town-gown tensions...
...device of shamming insanity has a long tradition going back at least as far as Oceanus' advice to Aeschylus' Prometheus: "To simulate madness is the secret of the wise," Walken's "antic disposition" is correctly a disguise. He appears barefoot, wearing a muddied monk's gown with cowl. He takes things pretty fat, however, In the Nunnery Scene, where he not only berates Ophelia but even knocks her down and slaps her. Later he shinnies up a pole to give a speech...
...altar with Fernand's son. But at the last moment, Althea refuses to sign a marriage contract that provides $200,000 for her odious mother and nothing for herself. While her fiance rushes off to get drunk, the bride-to-be makes love to Stavros in her wedding gown and precipitates an unforgettable four-wall fray for all. Yet all's wealthy that ends wealthy. While his old flame marries on her own terms (he is not invited to the wedding), Stavros, now 42, lands a 40% interest in Sarrafian. At war's end he sets...
Patrick feels betrayed by the new generation. He had worn a red armband of protest on his graduation gown, renounced his earning potential and set off to join the hippies or become Bob Dylan. The way he sees it, he went out on a limb to save the world, and the world came along and cut down the tree to make more paper for Playboy and Mademoiselle...
...envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because, when someone displeased her, she could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over everything but her own prose style. A woman's gown was her "toilette"; on several occasions she referred to an enemy's appearance in a "lovely bead neckless"; bachelors were referred to as "young celibrates...