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Standing above all this excitment ends up taking sides at some point. You can't help but sympathize with the science fiction fan, Harold, who falls for Suzi Scarsdale and does all of her physics homework, only to be scorned as "too serious" and left alone with his calculator while Suzi lets some Chip or Chuck sweep her away to an evening of mystery and adventure...
...gesture to save Afghanistan. Then there is the "I don't recall," a sort of buck pass to one's memory. Blaming the state is a standby too, as are blaming modernity, one's mother, the computer and the post office. "The dog ate my homework" is a favorite with schoolchildren. And a new plane of inventiveness was reached recently when a Virginia man killed his mother-in-law in the garage with a hatchet and explained that he mistook her for a raccoon...
...Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring in literature. Has she been doing her homework? Not much, it seems. "I have a copy of Trilby" Foster says, "but I haven't even read...
...within EPA and also on Capitol Hill is her brusque, no-nonsense manner. She keeps a strict time limit on all appointments. When asked an inconvenient question, she is apt to retort that any answer would be "the rankest kind of speculation." Yet, in a prideful display of prodigious homework, she lectures listeners in mind-numbing detail on EPA programs about which she knew almost nothing until her appointment. Though she has been in the midst of a divorce since before she went to Washington and serves as a devoted single parent to Sons Neil...
...know," says one, "we could be spending all our time lying on the banks of the Charles. But I don't know of any washouts among us. We were all good students--we all did our homework. In fact, I'd say we're the most driven, anxiety-ridden, inferiority complex-ridden group of people any of us know...