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...most undergraduate Houses students live among talented and diverse neighbors, and occasionally a genuine celebrity walks through the courtyard or eats in the dining hall. Recently Edward Asner, Leonard Bernstein '39, and Barbara Tuchman '58 have spent time living among undergraduates, occupying one of several lavish guest suites spread throughout the Houses...
...lost out to Detroit. When the U.S. Olympic Committee finally endorsed the Los Angeles bid for 1976, Moscow at the last minute decided to make it a contest of superpowers, and Montreal was selected in a spirit of compromise. Though New York City in the early going made a lavish presentation for '84, by the late-1977 deadline Los Angeles was the sole applicant for the honor. Not just in the U.S.?throughout the world. The only other city thinking of bidding was Tehran. This was the state of the Olympic dream, a pipedream...
This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers yawning...
...first incorrect impression that the government conveyed was that a bevy of indictments were just around the corner. In fact, they are still tricking in; the most recent indictment, in Minnesota last week, was the first in more than four months. Turnage was the first to make lavish predictions about the prosecution rate, but only slightly less optimistic claims were being made more recently by other officials that massive indictments were on the way. Everyone involved in the implementation of registration for the draft knew that no such thing was going to happen. Such bald exaggerations may have been intended...
...Force to maintain a fleet of 17 planes for official Government travel. On these military transports, spouses can travel free when space is available. Other abuses, says Congress Watch, include taking far more members and staff than are necessary to accomplish the stated purpose of a trip, lavish use of "food and refreshment" money supplied by military escorts and embassy personnel to the delegations, and excessive travel by lame-duck members...