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...absolute minimum of two days off work--if only because every hotel in the area requires a two-night stay during Commencement Week--and, if parents are coming a long distance, more often three days. It means expensive air rates, too, since the cheapest tickets often require a Saturday-night stay, impracticable under the current schedule...
...release, back up quickly to the previous number, Private Conversation, and surrender to the pulse of a Saturday-night bar band. Maybe you don't dare face "the moral of this story," which is "to look at what you've been through/ And see what you've become." Not to sweat; just follow the Gospel According to Lyle: "Boy, pick up that fiddle,/ Ooh and play that steel guitar,/ Ooh and find your- self a lady,/ Ooh and dance right where you are." This buoyant song allows you to do nothing else. It proves there's no misery, public...
...smaller towns superstores are providing a welcome -- and previously unknown -- burst of urban energy. Borders opened a store in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania (pop. 55,550), in late 1992, and it is now the most popular spot in town, with its Saturday-night musical performances. "There are no major museums or galleries here," says Trudi Musselman, a management consultant who used to live in New York City. "When Borders opened, it was a godsend. I go there now before the library...
...member jury, which included Catherine Deneuve and Kazuo Ishiguro (author of Remains of the Day), got the message. Happily infected with Saturday-night fever, it awarded Pulp Fiction the Palme d'Or as best among the 23 entries in competition. But the picture threw the international critics into a tizz. They weren't sure they should approve of a work of popular art so enjoyably and cleverly crafted; after a week studying the snail trails of European anomie and Third World angst, watching Pulp Fiction was like sneaking out of a final exam to go on a bender...
...Congress's recent effort to take on the gun lobby, securing the passage of both of Brady Bill and the recent ban on assault rifles. In a much-publicized hunting trip, Clinton tried to bypass the NRA and explain to hunters the difference between a hunting rifle and a Saturday-night special...