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Lake Forest, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, put together a slick 16-page Gift Handbook (subtitle: A Tradition of Excellence Through Giving), which lists such unbudgeted items as a $30,000 artificial lake for the 18th green of the municipal golf course, a $2.5 million indoor pool and a $1.2 million indoor tennis facility. While these wishes still await their fulfillment, Lake Forest has received $104,000 in donations since the list came out in September, including trees for the city's parkways, landscaping for city hall, an exercise trail in a city park and an oak table...
...characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
Hula turned it over in his hand. It was heavy and cold, and the barrel was slick with moisture. 'No-well, once or twice. A long time...
What is left, and still has its slick power, is the music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...
...exhaustion aside, the biggest obstacle Harvard faced yesterday was the Columbia squad itself--most shaved slick and three zealots with bared skulls--led by 800-meter freestyle American record holder Tony Corbisiero and prepared to give Harvard the meet it expected in New York...