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January 3, 1956--It was the only mail in my box that Thursday after New Year's. The heavy, white envelope was addressed to me, Janet Pressell, 55A Shepard Street. The engraved return address read...
...ensemble will perform Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." Aristophanes' "The Birds," "Suicide in B-flat" by Sam Shepard, and one other play, Peter R. Mason '81, one of the organizers of the group, said yesterday...
Even so, the idea of moving things like the post office and the bank away from the residential district disturbed older residents. Said Mabel Shepard, 79, who is ailing and confined to her home: "It's too far to go for groceries and the mail. I don't think it's a good idea." Mabel opposed the shift even though, back in 1951, she and her crippled daughter were pulled from their two-story house just before it lurched down the street, borne away on the current. Discussion raged. Some said another big flood might not come...
Nothing seemed to kindle Kennedy's enthusiasm like another journey into space. He was jubilant when the U.S. finally got Alan Shepard into the stratosphere and down again. Kennedy flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was killed, J.F.K. stood beneath the first stage of the giant Saturn 1 rocket. While Wernher von Braun talked quietly into his ear of the day the monster would head toward the moon, Kennedy thrust his hands in his coat pockets, rocked back on his heels, and for a fleeting second...
...riot) to the church social hall (where drunks are thrown out by bouncers) to the Copacabana (site of a huge brawl) to the kitchen and dinner table. Cathy Moriarty, stunning in her debut as LaMotta's wife Vicki, is as beautiful, in her way, as Taxi Driver's Cybill Shepard; but for the pristine campaign worker, Scorsese has substituted a passive, pliable coital robot. And it all ends with LaMotta, less than glorious in his heydey, the Raging Whale, even painful to look at, unable to get around his titanic belly to hug his brother. Everything is vile...