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...dying too young' or 'My children are dying in jail.' Cathy, by having made a statement before the Games about the present government's niggardly attention to Aborigines, did something very dramatic with her race. She put Aborigines where they ought to be, at the center, the first agenda item, not on the margin where Johnny Howard wants them. I think she is capable of great power...
...Your item on new television shows [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 4] cited Bette Midler's program Bette as the one that many advertisers give the best odds for success. Bette as a sitcom queen? I don't think so. She's about as relevant to modern life as Spiro Agnew gags. I'm unplugging my TV now. Call me when her show has been canceled. SACHA A. HOWELLS Los Angeles
...beach house of director John Frankenheimer. The novelist Romain Gary, husband of actress Jean Seberg, fastened onto Kennedy and said, brutally, "You know, don't you, that somebody is going to kill you?" A few days later, when he was 42, somebody did. Bobby Kennedy vanished to become an item of America's counterfactual history. What if? Who knows...
...team with less depth than Harvard (1-1) might be worried at the prospect of kicking off its conference schedule minus three of its key contributors. Fortunately for the Crimson, though, when Coach Tim Wheaton goes out shopping for recruits in the off-season, talent is one item he likes to order in bulk...
...time to eat, my classmates generously contributed carefully culled articles from their lunchboxes. (For those of you who've ever considered packing prunes, asparagus or green beans in your kids' lunches, it's important to recognize that unless some poor kid forgets her lunch that day, every single item will wind up in the garbage can.) And, in a delightful turn of events, my beloved lunchbox turned up two weeks later when my bus driver noticed a mysterious and unpleasant scent emerging from under a seat...