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...first-choice school. In Boston anxious parents of 80 preschoolers have sent in applications more than a year in advance for next year's class at the Commonwealth Day School. In New York the Educational Records Bureau, which evaluates applicants for kindergartens, is doing a thriving business. Says Helen LaCroix, director of admissions at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School: "It's become a little more difficult to get into a private kindergarten than to enroll in college...
...fist rammed up the anus. The real obscenity is the amount of money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and Sir John Gielgud; the amount of money squandered on lavish sets that often look less like ancient Rome than the interior of the Hong Kong...
...women, too, naturally) are products of their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught that the good...
...gastronomic tour of Europe, where he posed with famed Chef Paul Bocuse. In Los Angeles, to ease his anxieties about being recognized, Hoffman had his nose reshaped by a plastic surgeon. Then, four years ago, he moved with Johanna Lawrenson, 38, a former model and daughter of Author Helen Lawrenson, to a modest white farmhouse in Fineview, N.Y. (pop. 1,000), on an island in the St. Lawrence River...
...also appealed for exemption on the ground that "my father is dying"; Jacob Lippmann. a clothing manufacturer, lived ten years longer. In his 40s Lippmann had an affair with the wife of Hamilton Fish Armstrong, his best friend. When the liaison was discovered and Lippmann decided to marry Helen Armstrong, he persuaded his father-in-law to break the news to his wife of 20 years. He never saw her again. He was touchy all his life about his Jewish origins. He blamed anti-Semitism on the Jews who would not blend quietly and inconspicuously into the Protestant mainstream...