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...looms like a pale ghost from an earlier political era, moving from table to table at a campaign function. When he lingers near one table, there is an uncomfortable silence before someone from a group of reporters asks, "Care to join us, Senator?" Twenty-four years after he ended Lyndon Johnson's hopes for a second term by getting 42% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, Eugene McCarthy is running for President again, and no one seems to care...
Indiana Jones, George Lucas' whip-wielding superhero, battled just about everything from giant boulders to sinister Nazis in three hugely successful movies. But those exploits pale beside Lucas' daring in bringing his popular character to television. His new ABC series, which begins next week, follows the exploits of young Indy as he travels the world with his father, a college professor, and encounters some of the most famous people and events of the early 20th century. Indy serves as a courier at the Battle of Verdun, meets the young Picasso in Paris, goes big-game hunting with Teddy Roosevelt, matches...
...with the air % conditioner on." Yet his fresh eye and fine prose provided a rich sense of the Games' atmosphere. Aptly, his most memorable moment happened far from the action: "One night I missed my bus connection and I was reduced to walking to the next village. The scenery, pale blue in the frosted moonlight, was magical, but scenic vistas were not the first thing on the mind of an Indian from Santa Barbara sludging along a dark, deserted road at 2:30 in the morning...
...perverse surprise party planned by the French imperialists for the Algerians--the surprise is that the "dark-skinned" guests will all be killed. After the massacre, Fofo and Gaston-Phillip (not to be confused with Phillip-Gaston) speak of un-P.C. goals such as having "hundreds of pale babies" and avoiding "ethnic foods" and "Negro music...
...There's very little evidence that either of the [tax] cuts will be particularly effective," said Benjamin M. Friedman '66, Maier professor of political economy. "I thought it was pretty pale stuff...