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...volunteered in earlier years, to learn more than is revealed by S.A.T. scores. Gimmicks alone will not get a student into college, of course. Yale turned down-on academic grounds-applicants who had sent in an embroidered pillowcase, an apple cake and a sexy black negligee handmade of appliqued silk. At Bowdoin, President Roger Howell took a bite of a cookie made by one aspirant and grunted, "She'd better be good in class because she's not in the kitchen." She wasn't, and was not admitted...
...Porsche. What will it do without him, pining away in a garage? He writes his brother Wayne often: "Did you remember to pump the brakes?" (This tests the condition of the master cylinder.) Wayne agrees to show us the Porsche, deep in a carefully padlocked garage. He unties a silk-soft dust cover and gently folds it up onto the top of the car, being careful not to scratch the paint-35 coats of the richest, most luminous black paint that the world's most industrialized nation can provide. Each coat has been applied personally and diligently over...
...been threatening a strike for 30 years but had always settled. Lindsay's recalcitrance led Quill to call a TWU strike, for which he ended up in jail. Quill then suffered a heart attack in jail, dying shortly thereafter and leaving Lindsay with a reputation as a silk-stockings man who didn't know how to deal with labor...
...entertainment starts out kind of slow. The Collectors's Items, four girls, two guys, all with the burnt out eyes and faded satin outfits of Las Vegas corines, do a medley of your favorites and a military tap to the tune of 'Over There'. Lanie Kazin, a butterfly in silk, dedicates one to Nixon, she calls it 'Feeling Good.' Feeling what? asks one of the kids, smirking in the back...
...said, "Here, you'll like this." He couldn't have been more correct. "All Day Music," the title cut, starts the album off, and like most of the other songs it is based on a percussive, African rhythm. The various instruments interweave creating a sound smoother than the finest silk. Voice adds to voice until the listener is confronted with a solid wall of harmony. The whole song just fits into a nice, easy groove. The song really conveys the feeling of lazily lying around the grass on a beautiful spring day in California. It's beautiful...