Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Morrow: "American Notes are fragments that you can seize upon and draw conclusions from. At best, they have a quality of surprise." He generally writes the notes at home, two cats on his lap and his wife Brooke, a former TIME researcher, near by in case an idea needs a test reaction. His current hobby is a survey of Howard Johnson's french-fried onion rings. Explains Morrow: "Their quality, like the rest of American life, varies enormously...
...squares his shoulders and waddles off to the altar-alone but hopeful. On the way he meets Henrietta, spilling tea at a party. As Elaine May plays her, Henrietta is a hilarious anthology of gaffes; when she smiles, lipstick enamels her teeth. When she rises from a table, her lap is upholstered with crumbs. Price tags cling to her new clothes; her fingers dangle from hapless hands, like stockings hung to dry. But she has one profound saving grace: wealth beyond avarice. "Let me take all this away from you," schemes her new suitor, and sweeps her off her purse...
...Heptagonals saw Enscoe in one of his gustiest performances. "The pace was really slow for three quarters." a teammate said of the race. "Enscoe was in the lead, but everybody knew it was going to be a bullshit last lap...
...Penn's Karl Thornton was catching up in the last lap." he said, his voice growing in enthusiasm. "As Thornton passed him, he gave him some kind of elbow, a legal elbow, and put him out into the fourth lane. Enscoe won it easily after that. It was an incredible race...
...only events in which Harvard placed were the 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard individual medley. In the medley, Tim Chetin moved from fifth to third in the final lap and finished in a time of 4:22.56. Harvard's backstroke specialist, Dan Kobick, swam an exceptional race, finishing seventh in 54.2, a new Harvard record...