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...Yorkers were arrogant, crass, rude. They presumed to tell the rest of the nation-through television, magazines and books-what to think, how to dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism, supercilious radical chic in the penthouses, while the streets turned into a slough of welfare and crime. Limousines brought the anchor men to work, while welfare families-or landlords-burned down their own tenements in the South Bronx...
...Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...
GEORGE and Doris don't see each other during the year. But come a certain weekend in February each bids goodbye to a trusting spouse and flees to the security of a California cottage, where together they slough off the accumulated hurts of the past year and reaffirm the dreams that must sustain them until their next meeting. Charles Grodin-of The Heartbreak Kid-and Ellen Burstyn-acclaimed for her performances in The Exorcist and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore-are George and Doris. They are the only actors in the play. And though the California hideout...
CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...
...many Britons spending the summer of' 74 back in their own backyards but so are other Europeans, as well as the usually ubiquitous Japanese and the big-tipping Americans. Tourism, which ranks among the world's largest industries in terms of money spent abroad, is in a slough...