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...132a, "The Realist Mode," and French 132b. "The Experimental Mode," are highly praised by students. According to class members. Suleiman graded and wrote comments on all 60 students' papers, and took the trouble to learn everyone's name. "She is extremely friendly--very approachable," says one student, Elizabeth E. Porter...
...auto-cowboys make much of caressing the curves of their hoods.) The latest incarnation of the car as creature is NBC's Knight Rider, a computerized, talking Trans Am that is a lineal descendant (with a slight Freudian twist) of the grouchy 1928 Porter that haunted Jerry Van Dyke in My Mother the Car. Sleek and soigne, the car (with the sexually ambiguous name of Kitt) engages in flirty repartee with its pretty-boy driver, Michael Knight...
Whether forlornly ruminating on Alec Wilder's I'll Be Around, with a lonely piano and solitary celeste offering gentle support, or swinging easy with Cole Porter's Just One of Those Things against a background of burbling saxophones, or punching out Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Five Minutes More in front of some antiphonal spitfire trumpets that would have made Gabrieli gladly forsake San Marco for the recording studio, Sinatra is a master of mood and vocal nuance. He can ornament a line, subtly altering its rhythm, or bend just a single note...
...park, had a house remodeled by Stanford White to serve as the Players, a club for actors. When I was ten, I once waved to Charles Coburn as he emerged from the Players, and he waved back. The park's most mentioned artist-in-residence was William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, who lived on Irving Place and used to drink at Healy's Cafe, now Pete's Tavern, and still on 18th Street. One of the rare continuing neighborhood disputes concerns O. Henry. The people at Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift...
...back at the top, Staley found the early going tough. She dropped her first two big matches, to Sophie Porter of Dartmouth and then to Porter's sister Nina on Saturday at Trinity...