Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single interview. "There's got to be a better way of doing this," sighs a Wisconsin Ph.D. candidate. "Half the people here are enjoying themselves because they are secure in their jobs." He stares nervously as a department head who has just interviewed him passes by without a sign of recognition. "For the rest, M.L.A. is a question...
...pickup company together for a few evenings in a church basement. Years of such observation inform Croce's asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward Villella in Pulcinella: "He goes through the piece like a speeding crab, as loose as Groucho." Of Nureyev in Le Corsaire: "At the end ... he slams himself to the floor at the ballerina's feet and yearns upward from the small of his back. No one else does...
...globe to the other gathering evidence that has been left in the wake of the same aliens who caused the ruckus in Muncie. Our expert finds one detail quite interesting. The inhabitants of a small town in India--believing a visit by the stellar spooks to be a sign from the great one--created a four-note jingle to sing in honor of the other-wordly visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that this tune (now played incessantly on Boston radio stations) is a musical "hello" from the aliens. He convinces his colleagues...
...last the long-awaitied winners in the Dr. Pressclips Meaningless Journalism Contest for December. First place goes to the Boston Herald for itspicture of a teenager grinning into the camera with a snow shovel in his hand. The cutline reads, "Twelve year old (Name withheld) shows no sign of birth defects as he shovels snow outside his parents home in Mattapan." Attaboy, kid. Second place to the New York Post for its "Sam Sleeps" cover, complete with a photograph of David Berkowitz catching a few z's in the Tombs. Honorable mentions toonumerous to name... --Joseph W. Dalton...
...subsequently exiled to India after he continued to speak out against the Nepalese government and refused to sign a formal apology to the king...