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...Rub-a-Double-Tub A bath's a fine and private place, And some, I think, do there embrace...
President Nixon is rarely referred to by name; instead, he is "what's-his-face," "whosis," and "the Great Kiwani." The kidnaping of the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil is interpreted as "a unique opportunity for a diplomat to get out of the embassy compound and rub elbows with the common people, cultural exchange, that kind of thing." A congressional committee meeting in its ornate chambers to investigate a student uprising is like "chasing S.D.S. across America in an 1890 Pullman car." Judge Julius Hoffman of the Chicago conspiracy trial is "the teeny judge, who bounces up and down...
...undefeated, they were playing Dowling's Invincible the next afternoon, and the Harvard Band was there at Dillon Field House to salute the squad when it came out for its final practice. George Lalich's father had come all the way from Chicago with gangster hats that read RUB OUT YALE, and was passing them...
Many have secured me for my recent failures and I would like to acknowledge if not gratefully notes from Steve Shalen 71 and Bob Kamilli A 1969 graduate of Rutgers, who wished to rub salt into open wounds. One fellow offered to bet me on any picks this week but I told him he must be kidding. I predict a perfect percentage today...
...Italian Job, he is Charlie Croker, played by Michael Caine with his bag of standard accessories: cockney locutions, drooping eyelids and acute satyriasis. Charlie uses jail the way some men use their country clubs-to make valuable contacts. Though he is a petty criminal, Charlie contrives to rub shoulders with the larcenist laureate of England, an elegant superpatriot of a prisoner known only as Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward). Britannia waives the rules for Bridger, who affects Savile Row threads, dines alone, and stabilizes sterling by masterminding foreign robberies from his cell...