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...studio audience. The show has probed ABC's relations with business and the White House and has confronted broader questions of accuracy, responsibility and taste-often bluntly. In a segment last October, a woman in Dallas told Barbara Walters that she "comes across in interviews as being almost rude...
...Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy widower, Norman Lonsdale. He would be an atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that he would wed the Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would be rather rude if I said there was no possibility." Mum was not the word, however, for Queen Elizabeth's press secretary, Michael Shea, whose normally tight lips loosened at a banquet. According to a journalist who was present, he revealed that the family nickname for the Queen when she was bored...
...wish to comment on Professor Jorge Dominguez's petulant but understandable protest against being telephoned at home by students and colleagues. His complaint is fair. If he has indeed made it clear that his privacy should be respected in this way, then violations of that injunction are rude. Perhaps he is justified even in his suggestion that this understanding should be implicit within the academic community or in any other professional or work setting. Of course he must know that the individual policies of faculty and graduate students vary so widely here that it must be difficult for students...
East Stroudsburg State (there really is such a place) sent Harvard packing by downing the spikers, 15-10, 15-13, in the second round of the double-elimination tourney. Host Pittsburgh handed the Crimson a rude 15-5, 15-6 welcome in the opening round...
...miss by much. Live on the Sunset Strip is the sort of movie one would want Jerry Falwell. Anita Bryant and perhaps Nancy Reagan to be chained to the front row of the theater and forced to watch with eyes propped open Clockwork Orange style. It's that rude...