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...that's why we had to take him seriously," said Featherless, as the jeweler threw his son's sterling silver baby cup into the melt pile and handed him a wad of aerodollars. "The one who really worries the Republicans is Anderson...
Early Saturday morning 30 fun loving Ruggers and undisclosed quantities of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer will pile into two thrity-foot-long Winnebagos and two automobiles. The Harvard Rugby Club is embarking on its "1980 Dreadnought Rugby Tour" to Florida next week...
...like mummies exposed to the air; Jacks were breaking their crowns and Jills stopped tumbling after. The Women's Room certainly contributed to the body count. Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life. Her soul on ice, Marilyn French sounded like a feminist Eldridge Cleaver...
...rhythms but at the speeds of the media, where the compulsion for at least one new sensation a week hinders the sensible sorting out of the significant from the trivial. Simon's lovers understand that they cannot stay the rush of their feelings: lives are so crowded, things pile up so rapidly that there is a compulsion to lurch after possibilities that might otherwise be explored more thoughtfully...
...fame and fortune he has goofy romantic collisions with a couple of formidable and very amusing ladies, a mean, mean carnival motorcyclist (Catlin Adams), who beats him up, and a virtuous cosmetologist (Bernadette Peters), who plays cornet solos to express her love. He makes and loses a great pile of money, and eventually is rescued from drunken bumdom by his black parents, who are now rich from the money he has been sending home. The rube role works fairly well when Martin remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind...