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...best, the bright new plastic furniture now invading U.S. stores can transform an ordinary room into something straight out of 2001; at its worst, it changes the same space into something uncomfortably like Motel Modern. Either way, plastic furniture-no longer disguised as wood but blatantly and unashamedly plastic-looking-is now showing up in homes all over the United States...
...athletic administration could eliminate the free hot dogs, drinks, and programs provided to the press (and that would eliminate the over $60 per week paid to the winter athletes who distribute the halftime food. How about the cost of boarding the entire football team and staff at a Newton motel most Friday nights before a home game. One wonders about the commitment of the administration. There is a ruling that Harvard teams will bus to all sporting events except at Penn and Cornell, but the cross-country team flew to New York City last Friday...
...surprising, then, to find Cook a little numb by the time he gets to Woodstock, which he sees as the natural outgrowth of one Beat movement. Having gone there to observe the rock festival (though his base of operations was a motel room), he reports that most of the people he saw were sullen, mud-caked and silently straining to hear the music. He dismisses the claim that Woodstock was the soul-expanding event portrayed in Michael Wadleigh's film documentary. Well and good. But amid the chaos of Max Yasgur's farm, Cook seems a little like...
Dusty and Sweets pass a good part of the weekend in the Studio City Motel shooting dope. At one point, lying on the grass in one of those vacant Los Angeles parks, Dusty says that if they just had ten pounds of dope their problems would be solved. "Sure," says Sweets. "We could sleep forever." Larry and Pam, still not past high school, live together. They spend most of their time getting loaded. Larry scores off Dusty. He helps Pam shoot under the tongue for the first time...
When Trevino arrived for the Open at the Baltusrol Country Club in Springfield, N.J., his wardrobe was sparse. "I had to walk 500 yds. down the road to a Chinese joint in order to eat because the dining room at my motel insisted on a tie and jacket. I ate so much Chinese food I was slant-eyed." It apparently agreed with him. He finished fifth, won $6,000 and was later named the Rookie of the Year. Lee Buck Trevino...