Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RABBI SAMUEL M. SILVER...
Arriving at Loyola University in Chicago for a "rap session," the silver-haired Democrat found that his audience had been lured away by a campus goldfish-swallowing contest. "The student chairman was very apologetic," says Pucinski, "and we went to the contest to announce that I was there." Upon his appearance, the students began chanting, "Eat a fish! Eat a fish!" Never one to ignore an opening, Pooch downed one of the little wrigglers. "A goldfish is sort of like a martini," said Pucinski later, swallowing hard. "After the first one, they're not bad. Once...
...Cincinnati students played their ribald roles with enormous style and verve, coping with the 17th century music as if it were as familiar as La Boheme. Set Designer Paul Shortt's floating clouds, silver rain and heavenly chariots were magically effective. The double Diana switched her sex with dazzling ease, garnering great applause from Cincinnati's sophisticates-and some rather hysterical giggles from startled youngsters who came unprepared for a lesbian love duet. "R.T.J...
...staking out a Name for Himself among the demigods of his hero-worshipping youth. Peter Bogdanovich is 34 years old; he wants to be Orson Welles when he grows up, or Howard Hawks or John Ford--or, better still, all three rolled into some penultimate titan of the still-silver screen...
...knows. "The effect of illness was to coarsen his personality by letting its wilder elements escape," Ferris notes. Messages to his editors grew wilder. He traveled incessantly: Australia, Japan, India, back to France. There Northcliffe discovered that an employee, summoned over from London, did not have a suitable silver-fitted crocodile-leather suitcase. He promptly was given ? 150 to go back to London...