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Eight o'clock in the evening is a slow, sullen hour in Sin City, a.k.a. Lost Wages. "I'm tired," whines a member of the United States Twirling Association. "C'mon, we're supposed to be having fun," snaps her companion, a clone. In razor-crease jeans and stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have...
...took the Olympics to showcase the new gymnastics and their freshly minted champions in a week of competition as razor close as it was electric. How far the sport has come in its public appeal could be seen by the crowds that thronged into the 12,700-capacity Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus for every major event. One of the dozens of NEED TICKETS signs outside the men's team finals was held aloft by a young UCLA student. Three members of the men's team are fellow UCLA Bruins and, she noted, things were different...
Fears of a free fall in crude prices resounded last week throughout the oil industry. Said Gulf Chairman James E. Lee: "I think we are kind of on a razor's edge." Texaco, Quaker State and Standard Oil of Indiana lowered the rates they would pay for some types of U.S. crude by as much as $2 per bbl., to $26. The trend may force two big producers, Britain and Nigeria, to mark down the official price of their crude. Said Constantino Fliakos, oil analyst at Merrill Lynch: "If that happens, OPEC ultimately would suffer and have to lower...
...insult-artist school of broadcasting traces its roots to Joe Pyne, an ex-Marine who liked to tell his guest victims to "go gargle with razor blades." He perfected his brand of radio ridicule in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, then carried it to syndicated television later in the decade, when hippies and antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined...
...Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down on your couch and watch TV. Eventually one would pull out a razor and start scraping paint...