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...Jefferson Park kids, observing the lack of talent of some of the couples, put on a small exhibition for couple #855, who appear sufficiently grateful to their diminutive coaches. Others pass the time by reading the newspaper to the strains of "Shake It Baby...
During his first three months in office, the neatly tailored and coolly authoritative Andropov has worked hard to shake the worldwide stereotype of the KGB heavy in the ill-fitting suit. In a rumor campaign that began before Brezhnev's death, Andropov was portrayed in the West as a sensitive liberal with a fondness for Scotch whisky and the Glenn Miller sound. Now, after most of the disinformation and half-truths have been sifted out, Andropov remains an unknown quantity. What is clear is that his rise to power has coincided with the gradual evolution of the Soviet Union...
...details from Berlin's otherwise sketchy treatment of O'Neill's life--for instance, the young playwright was kicked out of Princeton for throwing a rock through the window of then-president Woodrow Wilson. And describing the disease' which made O'Neill's hands shake for the last decade of his life--effectively cutting off his ability to write--Berlin contends that O'Neill actually "died" with the onset of the tremor--when he was not writing he was nothing. Berlin's details add up to illumine the sense of hopelessness that powers O'Neill's tragic vision, since, Berlin...
Even the thrill of the overwhelming Beanpot win couldn't shake Dooley's feelings for the B.C. squad "My heart really goes out to those girls. I really give them a lot of credit" he said. "It's just a shame that the commitment B.C. has made to men's athletics hasn't spilled over to women's athletics. The B C women's teams just really can't match up without the support...
From the outset, Germaine Greer's irrepressible liveliness, not to say stridency, cuts through Plante's dispiriting view of women. Her earthiness seems to have tickled his sensibility: "Germaine will clutch the fat at her tummy and shake it and say, 'That's alcohol.' " But there is a touch of malice in his portrait of the au thor of The Female Eunuch. When Greer rummages in her refrigerator for some thing to feed her cats, she exclaims, "Oh, darlings, you're so lucky. Here's testicle." Plante pointedly fails to specify the species...