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Then comes the Day After. You don't just go to class. You stagger in, using Jack Nicholson's patented "Cuckoo Nest" post-electroshock walk. Your section leader takes on the sinister role of Nurse Ratched as you wink, smile and wallow in your rebellious glamour. Better than thumbing your nose at the school principal, blazing through a two week assignment in one night completely destroys your section leader's sense of authority...
...Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison, 60, a former president of the Leesburg, Va., garden club (for belonging to a "highly organized nest" of Communist fellow travelers...
...three years Hart, played by actor James Stephens, and his classmates struggled with torts, contracts and civil procedures, as well as real world issues of abortion, anti-Semitism and civil rights. This year, Showtime producers decided that the students were at last ready to leave the nest and become lawyers, so in June the cable channel will show the first of five "graduation year" episodes. And in August, a final two-hour commencement program will end it all with a bang. But show producers wouldn't say what the future holds in store for the budding young lawyers. An associate...
This gargantuan nest egg has also created greater financial security for the citizens who take part in the program. More than 27 million households, or about one-third of the U.S. total, have started at least one IRA. George Solomon and Anne Wyndham, a pair of Santa Monica, Calif., actors with a two- year-old son, each plan to start an IRA because of their uncertain future income in show business. Says Silverio Califano, 42, an Eastern Airlines aircraft inspector in Miami, who contributes to his account every year: "As far as I'm concerned, I think IRAs...
...imaginary Rapstone and its inhabitants, larger events are disclosed: sugar rationing after the war, ban- the-bomb marches during the edgy '50s, the rise of swinging London, the Profumo scandal, strikes, strife and the sinking of traditions in a new tide of commercialism. The fate of the Swan's Nest, an old inn in the vicinity of Rapstone, is symptomatic: "In the course of time it would be taken over by a motel chain, re-christened Ye Olde Swan's Nest and given piped music, colour TVs in every bedroom . . . an enlarged car park and the Old Father Thames Carvery...