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...thermos laid out between them. It looks like a picnic. One quickly points out that the final examination for Church History 103 is nothing of the kind: the reading list is "bottomless," 2500 pages worth, and it didn't help that they had the questions in advance. "Shit," says another, "I'm going back in and keep bombing it." He vanishes through the orange doors and descends into the exam. The picnickers remain, saying that the thermos is a new idea; but neither has ever missed a smoking break. "Usually I smoke during exams," which seems curious until he reveals...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...What son of a bitch dumped this shit in front of my place?' ...it seemed a pile of filthy rags. But it was a man. Dead...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Roman Crime of Passion | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

...night writing a second or third draft of his column. "And going to screenings is not like going to the movies. First of all, you see a lot of bad movies--the great movies are fun, a lot of it is a lark, but a lot of it's shit. Sometimes it's like combat duty." Rich feels most successful, most satisfied with the way his life is going, when he is writing well. When he is writing badly, all the townhouses, finances, telephone-answering machines and New York Post messengers in the world can't keep him from feeling...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Success | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...wanted to give meaning to my own time, to be the unattainable luring love that drives men on, the angel of light, the best of the universe made womankind, the living sacrifice, the end! Shit." −Carla (in Kennedy's Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Taking Chances | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...back far enough from his subject to handle his account in a balanced and scholarly manner. Steinberg, in short, lacks the ability that Lyndon Johnson described so succinctly after hearing a Nixon speech: "Well, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Fighting the Urge | 11/18/1975 | See Source »

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