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...hungry; second, sleep whenever you can, even if you're not tired; third, get your laundry done whenever it's possible." Survival is sometimes even more fundamental. Correspondent Cloud, a native Californian who has reported for TIME in Moscow and Saigon, still remembers with a shudder what he calls "a white-knuckle flight" during the New Hampshire primary campaign, when the pilot of a plane bearing him and Carter and a few aides could not find an airport for his small plane during a blinding snowstorm. Says Cloud: "Not even in Viet Nam under fire...
Days in the Trees seems like a bad dream from which the playwright could not awaken. Nor can the actors who shudder convulsively with the dire reality...
Some will be tempted by well-known names like "21" (52nd St. between Fifth Ave. and Avenue of the Americas), where the captain may greet all but nationally known politicians with a fastidious shudder and escort them to Transalpine Gaul. The food is expensive and sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant...
...people in Wigglesworth the 12:45 train into Harvard Square is an annoying shudder coming up from the basement. But for a small group of fanatics, the 12:45 is a sacred institution. These are the subway freaks--the guys who tape small maps of the MBTA to their wristwatch bands, who let three trains pass until they get the right car, who make tape recordings of the Muzak at the Park Street station...
...felt horrified at the endangerment to my fellow tenants, and I shudder to think what their response would be a more serious situation," she added. "They acted in total disregard to the safety of the tenants...