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...Radcliffe women continued to ruin their heels on the Lamont stairs while the issue lay dormant for more than a year...
...Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having met Sam the night before, shows up to return his coat and is gone 90 seconds later. "It helps my reputation," said Hart. "It'll probably ruin the show's." Viewers will record the final vote, but for the cast and crew it was Hart by a landslide...
Being on the brink of ruin was nothing new to Fisk: in October 1871, the place was down to $1 to its name; a year earlier, a teacher apologized for petitioning for back pay, saying it was a case of going barefoot through the cold months; a year before that, the faculty voted to forgo desserts to cut costs in the dining room. For better than a century, then, the place has always managed to claw itself through every penurious period. And so in the spring of 1984, when the prospect of real collapse looked near, those who love Fisk...
...grave. "Ours was not a modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin and a skull-shaped ice cave...
Outside the cities, sex involves greater risk. In some rural areas, if a single man walks a single woman to her door, the stroll is equivalent to a declaration of marriage. The misreading of a relationship by neighbors or an accusation can bring social ruin. As in most other countries, the woman bears the brunt of the blame for sexual misconduct, though that may slowly be changing. One weekly managed to be both antisex and antisexist when it wrote that "virginity education should be carried out with females and males at the same time. A girl...