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JOHN CLELAND was a luckless little hack who in 1748, destitute and desperate, scribbled Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure for a flat fee of 20 guineas. He went on to become an inept philologist, ducked creditors much of his life, and died aged and unsung. If the poor fellow were only alive today, he could be a Big Writer, for critics on both sides of the Atlantic have acclaimed his ability to describe repetitive fornication with elegance and grace. He could wear hand-sewn Italian loafers, sell his still unwritten books to the paperbacks...
...meeting is shaping up a battle between Maryland's field event performers and Villanova's runners. The Terrapins will build up a solid lead in the afternoon, and the Wildcats will hack away at it as the night rolls...
JACKIE'S FIRST PARTY! HER PRIVATE INVITATION LIST, promised Inside Movie. Inside Inside Movie, some anonymous hack noted that Mrs. Kennedy had concluded her mourning period, and then went on to surmise exactly what kind of party she might now properly throw: "Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres ... a table set with the finest silver, china and crystal...
...admire a brave man," he went on, "but some people have got more guts than brains." Embroidering his charge that Goldwater would send the U.S. "to hell in a hack" by tearing down programs that have been built up over the past 30 years, he added: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one." In Pittsburgh, Lyndon offered 13,000 partisans a storybook view of the future according to L.B.J. "So here's the Great Society," he cried. "It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when...
...entire top was blown off, the scientists found it covered with sedge, beach magnolia, and the small white-flowered tree messerschmidia, which was named for the 18th century German botanist, Daniel Messerschmid. So thick were the morning-glory vines on some of the islets that the scientists had to hack their way through with machetes. Birds are back in the atolls, replacing those that were killed or so blinded that they starved to death...