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...Says he: "As a Catholic, I am against this strange, secret, uncontrolled, scandal-filled administration." Andreatta and many Italian moneymen do not think that the Vatican should even be in the banking business. Says he: "It is silly for the clergy to manage directly a financial institution." The peculiar relationship between the Vatican and international high finance may not survive the current scandal...
...Academy Award for Best Actress: "After Olivia delivered her acceptance speech and entered the wings, I, standing close by, went over to congratulate her ... She took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar to her bosom, and wheeled away ..." Heartbreak is hardly peculiar to actors, but they are surely experts in extracting drama from it. They often see things the way a scriptwriter might. Concludes Ricardo Montalban's memoir, Reflections-A Life in Two Worlds: "If we are free and open and giving, our lives will be full and fruitful... Those thoughts and a thousand...
...gaze drifts away in the middle of a conversation. Goodbye. The imagination floats through a window into the conjectural and finds there a kind of bright blue antiself. The spirit stars itself in a brief hypothesis, an alternative, a private myth. What we imagine at such moments can suggest peculiar truths of character...
...tain spirit about her, but the vacant Caulfield is surely the least promising newcomer since Pia Zadora. The director is Patricia Birch, who choreographed both the Broadway show and the first film. She cuts too much too fast, works too nervously in the musical staging, and veers from the peculiar to the pedestrian in the straight scenes. There is no security in her vision, but then, the whole movie seems to be nothing more than an excuse for a sound-track album...
James A. Sheppe '82 is well known in Lowell House as an eccentric. Stories of his peculiar habits and actions are a staple part of House lore. "Jim Sheppe?" one student says, "Yeah, I know him. Once I bumped into him in the courtyard, you know? He was wearing these riding pants--what're they called? Jodhpurs--anyway, I asked him why, and he said. 'I'm doing my Jaundry. These are my laundry clothes...