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...this deft assemblage is a doctor who practices in Tuscaloosa, Ala. What he practices, chiefly, is high-spirited swinishness. Ray dispenses morphine and other controlled substances to patients who are his friends; he also lends his friendly nurse to some of them. On the other hand, he pulls the plug on a cranky old man who annoys him. Unsteadily launched on his second marriage, Ray fools around with a succession of compliant women, while visions of high-heeled nudes out of Penthouse dance in his head. He looks back longingly to his days as a fighter pilot in Viet...
Once in the streets, however, BAARD has not been able to draw more than 50 people to any one protest. Last Saturday's sit-in in the McCormack Building, during which federal officers arrested 22 people, has highlighted the week's events. But Leyland and her compatriots will plug...
...pressure rose again the following day when TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "counterrevolutionary groups" within Solidarity were turning to "open confrontation" with the Polish Communist Party and with factory and office administrators. At the Iskra ball bearing and spark plug factory in Kielce, TASS charged, workers had ousted the management and disarmed security guards. The dispatch, which originated in Warsaw, also said that officials of the pro-party trade unions had been replaced by "persons who openly adhere to antigovernment positions." Both Solidarity and the official Polish press denied the story...
Trendy types who party in their redwood tubs built for two or four or more may be buoyed by some notion that they are making a splash in 1980s fashion. But Architect and Social Critic Bernard Rudofsky pulls the plug on all that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long...
...Brady lost 15 Ibs. after he joined the CBS show in 1977. Says Morton Dean, who has been sitting in for vacationing anchormen for years: "There's a whole subculture you plug into when you're working those hours, and the primary topic of conversation is sleep." Kuralt, who was away from his wife for two weeks at a time when he was traveling on the road, is worried nevertheless about his new schedule. "I'm going to try to force myself to turn in each night...