Word: patricks
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...Patrick and Jenny Standish have just moved into a modern apartment complex south of the Thames in London (faithful Amis readers will recall the courtship of these two as recorded 29 years ago in Take a Girl Like You). Patrick has stopped being a Latin teacher and now works as an editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm...
...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...
...Patrick Reynolds, 40, tobacco is the root of a small fortune and the object of a zealous crusade. A grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the giant tobacco company, Reynolds enjoyed a privileged prep-school upbringing in Connecticut and Florida. But in the five years since he stubbed out his last cigarette, the sometime TV-and-film actor has become a militant antismoker. Now Reynolds has co-written, with author Tom Shachtman, The Gilded Leaf (Little, Brown; $19.95), a moralistic tale about a fortune built on tobacco and dissipated by reckless heirs. Says Reynolds: "The hand that...
Nicholas C. Alpers '89 and Patrick J. Bannon '89 argued through eight rounds until they defeated a pair of Yalies in the finals to clinch the tournament for Harvard. Jason M. Cogan '90 and Andrew B. Clubok '90 placed fourth in the competition...
Some Homecoming. The Adelphi Kick Line, performing a risque half-time routine to Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" in the Styles Field mud, had a better day. The three courageous members of the Adelphi Chorale Society who croaked their way through a painful rendition of their alma mater had a better day. The last-place New York Islanders from Uniondale didn't make the playoffs, but they probably would have had a better day if they...