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...typical student. "I guess I am typical," replies Brooke Shields. "I'm taking 17 units." Not much else seemed average about Shields, 18, as the media flocked to cover her college stage debut last week in Princeton University's 95th annual Triangle Club student revue. Revel Without a Pause features the comely coed in five short skits, including a musical number with a tune called Spiller, a sendup of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Who knows, with luck and hard work Shields may eventually get the lead in a Princeton drama-club production. How about an adaptation...
...time for those of us who love baseball to revel in the simple joys of the game itself. Only the crankiest managers talk about winning down here. It is sport virtually without competition...
Maybe the U.S. should punish this "Israeli aggression" by dumping Israel, and instead siding with the Moslem nations (even though we already support and trade with most of them, anyway). So we dump a friendly, allied nation in favor of hostile, unstable countries that revel in anti-American, anti-Western, and even anti-Super Power rhetoric: countries, that the record shows, have a history of sticking up for themselves alone, and a propensity for violating alliances and treaties...
...overnight multimillionaires, though, revel in their new prominence. Apple Computer Co-Founder Steven Jobs, who is now worth about $185 million, has toyed with the idea of going into politics and was seen escorting Actress Diane Keaton to a Manhattan disco. When Altos Computer Systems Founder David Jackson began counting his wealth in nine figures, he turned up at the Kentucky Derby with then Governor John Y. Brown and was a guest at a San Francisco reception for Queen Elizabeth...
...vision. The self-deprecating Jewish humor provides a comic yet despairing perspective and enables Roth to hammer home his points more powerfully. Yet the extremity of this critical introspective and the vindictive nature of such criticism can make both Zuckerman and Roth seem like the very Jewish martyrs they revel in ridiculing. After all, Zuckerman's backaches are only just so interesting...