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...mark a departure from the usual repitoire (A word pronounced with extreme nasal intonation--intentional? I have no idea) of college men's chorouses. It's usually the unrelieved round of drinking songs and love songs and songs about girls and, well let's face it, sex. (minor laughter) This next song is going to cover a topic that is often neglected by groups of our kind; and that is (pause) horticulture...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 'Muffy, A Song For Us' | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...typical crowed panics, and all of the supposedly impending doom comes off as simple tedium. The music echoes the rumblings of Jaws, and endless towering boadwalks leer at the audience. The movie takes back everything it is trying to create, be they screams of terror or howls of laughter...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...when the jet cleared Iranian airspace, the State Department began informing the families that the hostages were free at last. Carter quickly got the word too, and his airborne party, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Jack Watson and Stuart Eizenstat, struggled with laughter and tears at the same time. Phil Wise rushed into the plane's press section to paraphrase a Martin Luther King Jr. line that applied aptly to both the Carter Administration officials and the hostages: "We're free, we're free; thank God almighty, we're free at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: An End to the Long Ordeal | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera -A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone -The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty - Crackers, Roy Blount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. ∙ Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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