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...sunny days before her free concert in New York City's Central Park last July, Singer Diana Ross, 39, made a generous offer: the proceeds from the TV taping of the show would be used to build a children's playground named after the erstwhile Supreme. But when the event's promoters announced that a thunderstorm had washed away the profits, there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last...
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Harvard students in the Yard and most of the River Houses will vote at the fire station across the street from Memorial Hall; Mother, Dunster, and Leverett Towers residents will cast ballots at Bruins playground on banks St., and Quad residents will vote at the Peabody School on Walker...
Naturally, not everyone is celebrating. Some of the world's playground directors feel ill at ease with this free-enterprise organization, finding it anomalous and annoying. However, except for a common dread of freeway traffic, and an occasional fearful word about smog, most have reacted with at least a cautious grace. Kosti Rafinpera, secretary-general of the Finnish Olympic Committee, says, "This is the first time the Games have been organized by a company, not a city. We're trusting that the Olympic spirit and the spirit of amateurism will be preserved." And many who have inspected the individual venues...
...Eddie the child, the streets of New York are a playground. There he cavorts with the lowest of the low, enjoying great sexual satisfaction with bums and bagwomen, while at once mourning the loss of his ideal love, his "Angel Fucker," Elena, whom the rich have spirited away. Thus Limonov hopes to demonstrate the vacuity of American culture; all emigres, not only Eddie, have betrayed their own natures by giving up a homeland where there is at least a little love (though we are never told why this is so) for a place which offers no love, and money...
...Andropov could even have heard of Glenn Miller, it is a remarkably apt translation of the Russian. What the pilot said was "Yolki palki," an exceedingly mild oath that translates literally as "the sticks of a fir tree," and is the exclamatory equivalent of "Yipes!" on a preteen U.S. playground...