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...GRANDFATHER, father and uncle are members of the Owl Club. There is a photograph of the Owl Club of 1955 in our family living room. When visitors examine the picture, we ask them to identify the man standing next to my father. They stare, smile, and recognize the boyish face of Teddy Kennedy...
...night last fall, I found two invitations outside my door. The Owl Club requested my presence at an outing and the Phoenix-S.K. Club invited me to cocktails...
...Hockney has given it real intensity as an image. Partly this is due to the "texture" of the photographs, which, at this scale, work like brush marks. The sky, shingled with hundreds of prints of blue (it must have been a strange sight for passing cars: the stocky, owl-like Limey tourist with the moon glasses pointing his camera at the sky and clicking away), is rich in a quite painterly way, while the copious, overlapping details from which the ground, highway and signs are recomposed seem to flicker in and out of focus, compelling attention by breaking the illusions...
...weeks she had ducked questions about her future plans -- and then there she was for millions to view, on the Phil Donahue show. Linda Ellerbee, the tart-tongued Texan beloved by night-owl viewers from her days on nbc News Overnight and by early-morning types because of her popular "T.G.I.F." feature each week on Today, had quit the network in a salary dispute. She was known to be dickering with ABC, and CBS had offered her the co-anchor slot on its perennially low-rated but soon-to-be-overhauled Morning News. Now word...
...calm free throws topped off his 25-point performance, good for the Most Valuable Player trophy, and the Cardinals' second title of the '80s. "What's the MVP," Ellison asked beautifully, "when you've got the national championship?" Not since the '50s and Bill Mlkvy, Temple's renowned "Owl-Without-a-Vowel," has basketball identified a hero as charmingly as "Never Nervous" Pervis. At the same time, not since UCLA and John Wooden have a team and a coach been as consonant as the University of Louisville and Denny Crum...