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...only 150 cabins available. Most of the Elizabethans had to sleep on chairs or the deck. Again, free drinks -this time with ice-and hot food helped soothe rising tempers. Landed after 15 hours in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Q.E. 2 passengers were given hotel rooms where they could shower for the first time in three days. Then, after being ceremoniously presented with complete refunds for their fares (up to $1,000), they were bundled aboard chartered jets for the 90-minute flight back to New York City...
...Johnson. There is the "definitive" biography, which leaves the reader on a first-name basis with the subject, weeping at his funeral. And there is the "picayune" biography, which leaves the reader with so many personal, intimate but unnecessary and non-integrated facts that he feels like taking a shower. Often, the picayune biography is an "authorized" work, written by a worshipping professor after the death of a great writer. Lytton Strachey anticipated Blotner's contribution to this genre more than fifty years ago when he remarked on "those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate...
...Franklin L. Ford, told registrants in the 1963 summer session that Harvard was in many ways much like the pre-1789 French monarchy--"irrational, frequently unjust, tradition-bound, and culturally distinctive." If people tried to make sense out of the university, Ford warned, it "would come down in a shower of blood." It was also just over two years after The Crimson ran an article called "Revolution in the Harvard Yard" --about a new spirit among freshmen. "Perhaps the most noteworthy example of this spirit," the article explained, "is among the 100 boys who are playing on the freshman football...
Counterpoint does demonstrate an active editing imagination in a number of short scenes. Several times Brown skillfully imitates Hitchcock's murder-in-the-shower sequence from Psycho, and there's an interesting scene at the headphones in Hilles Library. But they do this at Carpenter Center all the time...
Nets players as well as opponents shower him with superlatives. Erving, who will be 24 this month, discusses himself with neither modesty nor bravado: "I feel that I can drive, float, and change direction easily in the air better than most of the other players. It's that freedom of motion that separates me." Another Erving trick: in mid-dribble he palms the ball with his right hand, leaving his left free to fend off opponents, and soars into shooting or passing position without losing a step. The ploy, Erving says, "is quicker and more deceptive. You eliminate...