Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double in the bedroom. So neither person has their privacy when they want it. One wakes up when the other comes home, gets a phone call, or has to go to the bathroom. Worse, in dorms like old Leverett the bathroom can only be reached through one of the inner bedrooms. These former friends spend the year wiping their hands on each other's towel, debating whose turn it is to empty the trash, and having to trade rooms each time one of them wants to spend the night alone with a visitor. What happens when both of them want...
...television setting is "Scoops' Place," a rundown drugstore in the inner city. A young soda jerk named K.O.K. spoons out free banana splits to two buddies who stroll in. Boss "Scoops" calls the boy aside and points out that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn...
Mollenhoff swears he won't become enmeshed in government again. However, his short period as an official has been helpful to his journalistic career, he says, because through direct practical experience he gained a real sense of the inner workings of the presidential institution. Mollenhoff has received his warning; Game Plan for Disaster cautions those of us who have not undergone his antithetical experiences of government service and investigative journalism that the "Berlin Wall" obsessions that momentarily endangered the national political machine can too easily take over the system again...
Michael E. Kinsley '72 said yesterday his book, "Outer Space and Inner Sanctums," shows that although the government gave the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) control of the development of satellite communication in 1962, the company had "not applied the technology" and continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on land and underseas cables...
Even comic characters show surprising inner resources. In The Inside-Out-side Complex, a lonely antique dealer falls in love with the cozy scene and an attractive woman he observes through a bungalow window. He insinuates his wares and himself into the woman's dwelling and finally marries her. Gradually the view through that window to the world outside comes to seem irresistibly attractive. This turnabout is slapstick, but the problem behind it is not belittled by O'Faolain. Both the dealer and his new wife learn something about the treachery of fulfilled desires before their struggle...