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...tour organizers will have their day. A group called Corporate Capers has already sold 700 places next to windows in the office buildings along the wedding procession route. For $335, a rubbernecker gets use of binoculars, a TV set for watching the ceremony and a hamper laden with lobster, steak, wedding cake and champagne. Cornishman Simon Adkins has found a more personal way to mark the royal union. Tattooed on his back, in everlasting tribute, are the faces of Charles and Diana framed in a heart, with room left over for their children. Says Adkins: "I can carry my devotion...
Susan Kim, another yardling, was the only other Harvard swimmer to take first-place laurels. As the Crimson aquawomen serenaded her with "Rock Lobster," Kim stroked quickly and efficiently to a victorious 1:12.7 in the 100-yard breast-stroke. Later she came back to take a close second place in the 50-yard breaststroke with a time...
...walks around saying "Holy shit," which actually is as good a response as any. Then the daughter's boyfriend arrives, and they go off to get married, which neither mother or father seems to notice very much. Then Derek's father, a Beacon Hill professional who travels with lobsters in his suitcase, shows up. Nature Boy leave. MacLaine takes up with Lobster Man. Derek leaves. Hopkins sadly walks away through the snow. He has lost his wife and his lover, but at least he can now exit this movie...
...highly vulnerable to sabotage, there has been no trace of the Luddite violence that threatened the first labor-saving machines of the Industrial Revolution. On the contrary, working with a robot seems to confer status. And, while the machine usually looks less like a man than like a lobster, its human partners often seem unable to resist giving it a name and even lavishing on it a certain metallic affection. When one machine known as "Clyde the Claw" broke down at a Ford stamping plant in Chicago, its human partners gave it a get-well party. Chauvinism being what...
...there are opportunities as well as sleeplessness and maverick guests on the lobster shift, and many veterans have graduated to higher things. John Chancellor was anchorman of Today before he joined NBC's Nightly News in 1970, and Barbara Walters had the same job before she jumped to ABC in 1976. As a reward for her a.m. heroics, Pauley already has been given the anchor of NBC's Sunday evening news, and Brokaw is a leading candidate to replace Chancellor when he leaves. Hartman is expected to ask for a chance to do more prime-time work when...