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...quite of the social status he pretends and she wants. Len Cariou's Jack is decently hesitant about bedding Kellerman's Sandy, but eventually succumbs to her rather therapeutically stated invitations. Joe Bologna talks a confident wom anizing game, but doesn't score many points. Of this odd lot only Brenda Vaccaro's Marilyn, saddened but not fully daunted by the sudden, accidental death of her husband, seems content to accept a solitary life as the not unbearable price to be paid for happiness past. There's something rather touching about her self-containment. And she makes you think that...
MIAMI—Lying on my bright orange towel on the gorgeous South Beach sand this past weekend, I heard a plane, looked up at a brilliant blue sky, and read: “God has come. See him. 8 pm.” Although this odd premonition caught my attention, I flipped over, rolled my eyes, and quickly forgot about it. Later that day, I turned on the evening news and finally understood. It featured what at first seemed like another Miami Heat victory celebration—hundreds of people dancing to salsa music, waving flags, and cheering loudly...
...been the driving force behind Farm Aid for almost two decades. This year's concert [Sept. 30] is in Camden, N.J. Seems like an odd place for a Farm Aid show...
LONDON—Enter any cheap café in Vietnam and you are likely to be welcomed by a steaming bowl of the national dish “pho bò,” or beef noodle soup. Look around the café and you might notice something odd: almost every patron is male and almost every server is female. Go outside and the story is similar. While men wile away the days idling over iced coffee, women toil in the paddies, planting rice, gathering it, and then manning stalls to sell it at market. Holding all top political...
...studies of perception of scientists by high school and college students [dating back to the early 1960s] they were seen as intellectual dedicated human beings, but difficult to comprehend and erratic in their interpersonal relationships… 41 percent agreed that they were ‘apt to be odd and peculiar people.’ Such unflattering, stereotypic images of scientists apparently remain prevalent, even among knowledgeable people.”The modern myth of the scientist these studies allude to is visible in popular culture, in movies from the 1964’s classic...