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...kind of Oliver Twist-flavored Hollywood punk, Piper (George Olden) does not like the Bleeding purportedly Catholic orphanage run by the sadistic Sister Serena (Ann De Salvo). Twentieth-century America being the breadbasket of the world and all, Piper has enough food--so much so that he uses the mashed potatoes as an ashtray-but lacks the respect accorded even laboratory test animals...
...antiquarian and deeply sexist note. I might say all of these examples deal with women. I used to think that women were more likely to distinguish between the office and the home because they may have reflected more on how their father's career in the olden days over-whelmed mother and children. Thus I confess that I regret at least one feature of the widespread professionalization among women at Harvard. Women are now apparently just as likely as men to disregard the autonomy of the home. Of course, just as many examples can be given of the same long...
...autumn equivalent of the Marathon, hearty exercise before dining at Locke-Ober's, an imitation of the olden Argonauts: call it what you will, the Head remains one of the most panoramic events in the country...
...this week to drink the health of Prince Charles and his bride, Lady Diana, and marveling how, alone of the larger monarchies, the British model should have survived and be in so flourishing a condition as to be able to mount a royal wedding with all the panache of olden times. It often seems as though our British monarchy, along with our secret intelligence service, represents the only appurtenance of national greatness still extant. And even the intelligence network, it must be admitted, has of late been showing unmistakable signs of decomposition as the moles and countermoles surface and then...
...Robinson, who is black. "If this works, the mayor's political stock in the black community will rise 100%." Claims Byrne: "I'm not doing this for votes. Whoever says that should take the next apartment." Many residents of the Cabrini-Green project seem pleased. Says Annie Olden, a 59-year-old grandmother: "She is giving everyone here somebody to look up to. And that's real good." Byrne promises to live in the complex with her 13,545 co-tenants "for as long as it takes to clean...