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...female living, because we were such a minority. We dressed for class, for the invasion, because we were a spectacle. Often the entire Freshman Union would clamber to its feet when a woman entered, cheering, pounding silverware, jeering or bellowing. I remember being a one-girl exhibition in a Hum 8 section of 25: the sectionman would spend 40 out of 50 minutes making wisecracks about football, and then he would catch himself mid-sentence and bow like Sir Galahad before me inquiring, "And Madamoiselle, how goes the fashion world, pray?" This was the same attitude that insisted on parietals...
Nightclubs are coming back. Couples are holding hands under candlelit tables and listening to songs they can hum along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn...
...First Amendment continues, with newspaper reporters the first major casualties, but more on the way if Clay T. Whitehead, Director of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy, makes good his rhetorical attack on "ideological plugola" in the network news. If Whitehead has his way, the airwaves will soon hum with Richard Nixon Thought...
Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine included) for 75?, he exudes a kind of festivity...
...Elis led all the way in a ho-hum contest that was characterized by sloppy play and myriad turnovers by both teams...