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...afraid of." He had always written a lot ("Writing is so dignified," he says, rolling his eyes and dragging out the so like a saxophonist playing Blue Moon). In 1970 The New Yorker printed one piece out of a batch he had sent in, a small, eerily funny sketch, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy." It was written in the plonking style of a country newspaper, and it reported that two householders, hoping to shield their teenage son from the dangers of fast driving and foolish companions, had acquired a live-in prostitute...
...sketch show is also where producer Schur got his start, just a few months after leaving the College. Schur, an English concentrator in Adams House and a graduate of my high school, writes in an e-mail that the Lampoon didn’t prepare him “for anything, really. Perhaps if I had a career as a guy who lounged around drunk in poorly-maintained Flemish castles.” He wrote his thesis on David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” and Pynchon?...
...York City's Lincoln Center last week, there were Brie and French bread, sushi and raw clams, and a black-tie audience that watched Pop Artist Andy Warhol sketch Rock Star Deborah Harry on a computer. Commodore International was introducing its Amiga computer (base price: $1,295), which the firm hopes will reverse last quarter's $20.8 million loss...
...since the final draft of the General Education report was presented to the Faculty Council in early March, some faculty have complained that the ten-page report offers only a vague sketch of the complicated reforms that need to be made...
Several friends and I plan to go to Costa Rica over spring break; as we tried to sketch out our itinerary, a friend complained that it would be Good Friday when we arrived, which, he felt, would limit our evening plans...