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...probably have your own image of Cambridge, the city you'll live in for the next four years, already worked out. It's a quiet college town, right, with lots of bookstores and movie theaters and shady streets, near to Boston but far from the hectic pace of city life. The whole town is an extension of Harvard, right? Wrong...
Selecting courses at Harvard is a multi-faceted process: The two weeks between registering and turning in your study card with your semester's courses is a hectic period of hopes and frustrations, of the vision of new horizons and the disappointment of dead ends. Endless perusals of the course catalogue, anonymous tips and countertips, consultations of the Confi Guide, dranw-out late night discussions, all contribute to both the sense of chaos and urgency that characterize the start of a new term...
Fortunately Wertmuller blossoms out when she develops the other, more superficial characters, and intersperses the dull story with irrelevant but delightfully hectic scenes at the bordello. Salome, Tunin's contact in the city (played with spirit and finesse by Mariangela Melato), is blessed with all the wit and energy he lacks. With the tough elegance and self-assurance of a top whore in a classy joint, she adds a crucial dimension of sensuality and realism. Salome's bawdy repartees offer Wertmuller just the link she needs to trigger off comic scenes. Her vivid style is distinctly reminiscent of Fellini (with...
...belt pinching after feasts of roast lamb and pilaf, his legs a bit wobbly after trying them at Arab dancing, William Simon left the Middle East last week feeling justifiably tired but optimistic. The Treasury Secretary's hectic ten-day, four-country barnstorming had ended on the upbeat. Not only will Saudi Arabia take steps that could reduce world petroleum prices but that country will probably also invest much of its swelling surplus of petrodollars in U.S. Government securities...
Lynn Caine has a bit of the style of the only decent character in a Lois Gould novel. Until five years ago, she and her husband Martin lived comfortably in a Central Park West apartment, making the adjectives "happy" and "hectic" synonymous as only New Yorkers can. Attractive and fortyish, she was (and is) a publicity manager for Little, Brown. He was a successful lawyer, specializing in bankruptcy. They loved their two children, aged four and eight, Mozart, fine wine and summer vacations in New England...