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...None of this seemed to make sense until a very strange thing happened to me about a week ago. I got back a couple of papers, and, strangely enough, I did quite well. I know my classes are even harder this year--what could be the difference? Suddenly, it occurred to me that I did one simple thing differently when I went about writing these: I did not write for the sake of getting it over with so I could do more exciting things than my academics, but rather I got excited about creating something that made me proud...
...palling around with the likes of Barbra Streisand and, in the case of the President, being attended by a Beverly Hills stylist, they came across as parvenus rather than Kennedyesque sophisticates--and were attacked far more fiercely for sucking up to Hollywood than the Kennedys and Reagans ever were. None of us wants our own class anxieties magnified by the White House...
...there, or has there ever been, a modern American artist with a more peculiarly sacrosanct reputation than Jasper Johns? If so, none spring to mind. Johns' current retrospective of 225 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures at New York City's Museum of Modern Art has all the air of a cult event. This is not the fault of the curator, Kirk Varnedoe, who has done an exemplary job of hanging the show and, without resorting to the usual pseudo-philosophical guff that attends critical discussion of Johns, describing and analyzing his work in the catalog. Rather, it seems immovably built...
...furtively, as if she's not supposed to know she's in his arms. Almasy, a hoarder of his own secrets, may want to possess but not be known; Katharine may be tired of her cheery husband (Colin Firth), and she's itchy to return to her seaside home. None of this matters when they fall in love...
...lowered, it happened then. You also reported that budget trimming at the Inquirer denied reporters access to telephone directory assistance, long-distance calls and funds to travel to New York City to cover stories. Those things never happened. They were dark rumors during budget cutting a year ago, but none of them were ever put into effect. You picked up the rumors but failed to check the facts. MAXWELL E.P. KING, Editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia...