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...really a very comfortable middle-class existence," Nicholson says, adding that though he was stubborn and scrappy, his mother gave him room to romp. "You're on your own," she told him. "All I expect is that if you get into trouble, you'll tell me about it." Nicholson early inaugurated his lifetime habit of giving people nicknames. His sister Lorraine was "Rain," her husband George "Shorty." Nicholson referred to his father, however, as "Jack." He called his mother "Mud." He was reticent about his home life. Recalls George Anderson, a high school pal, now a salesman...
...movie also contains (Department of Cultural Footnotes) what may be the first slow-motion romp-on-the-beach sequence in which audiences are invited to ogle the male lead rather than the female, as he shakes his stuff in his bathing suit. There is one clear achievement here though: Black Eye is the favorite so far in this year's Best Title sweepstakes...
...band, in deference, toned down its horns just enough to provide a rich field for the two soloists to romp in. And when the improvisational smoke finally cleared, the performers had come a little closer to realizing student manager David Small's inevitable goal of "having people come to Harvard because of jazz." Hopefully, Monday night's concert will signal the beginning of Harvard's sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners in a race to recognize jazz's rightful place on campus...
...that great sports mecca of the East, Princeton University, there exists a magical playground for all of the student sports enthusiasts to romp in--Jadwin Gymnasium. This bastion of athletic endeavors, complete with its multitudinous underground squash and handball courts, wrestling rooms, weight rooms and soccer fields represents one of the greatest excesses ever perpetrated on the sport world...
Although it took three dual meets to do it, Coach Edgar Stowell's thinclads have finally perfected the art of the romp. They had good practice drubbing the Tigers and the Elis last week, but with their 103-50 victory over the Big Green yesterday at Soldiers Field, the thinclads must be considered the master of the shellacking...