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...Richardson is ready to start the drive home to Arlington. Tomorrow he will head out to the Hilltop Steak House is Saugus to buy a whole side of beef. Then it will be back to work--a job with the kind of slow-passing hours that lend themselves so well to conversations and recollection...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Merino was not sure whether Curry will make the Giants' roster, but he sounded an optimistic note: "He's really impressed me as a college receiver, and he'll lend some class to the Giants...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Jim Curry Inks Pro Contract; Giants Gain Crack Receiver | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared one large office, was markedly different...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Two Ways of Working At Harvard | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

While Britain operates with a professionally trained management team of Elizabeth, Philip, Charles & Co., we muddle on with cattle ranchers, third-rate lawyers and peanut farmers with no leadership background. You don't suppose they'd lend us Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...little bit of this sort of humor goes a long way, a lesson that the gifted Fran Lebowitz has yet to learn. Metropolitan Life (Button; $8.50) blitzes the reader with such lines as "Food gives real meaning to dining room furniture . . . Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money ... If God had meant for everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars . . . Sleep is death without the responsibility." It is a foppish wit that is very conscious of taste, class and sexual pre dilections, but Lebowitz herself remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wits and Funny Persons | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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