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There are meaningful warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must by very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy...
Then there are the familiar, likable actors: the recently-revived Dyan Cannon (better than ever these days) as Clouseau's tag-along; the smooth, stylishly resonant Robert Webber (also not around in the last few years and also better than ever) as the heavy; and Herbert Lom, in the best of his Inspector Dreyfuss portrayals. There was too much of Lom in Strikes Again, and Edwards directed him badly, but here he's wired to short-circuit on sight of Clouseau, toppling over in hilarious catatonia...
Peter Predun may be the most underrated lacrosse player in the country. As a sophomore last year, the midfielder placed only as high as the third team when All-American honors came out. This spring, there's no way they can keep the smooth wheeler-dealer off the first team...
...this meeting you, will be offically welcomed to Harvard-Radcliffe by President Bok and Radcliffe President Horner. Derek Bok is an interesting guy. He's paid to look good and talk smooth. And you might see him two or three times more, with luck, before you graduate. Dean Henry Rosovsky will give an address, which promises be a million laughs. If it rains, forget it, because the welcoming will be held in Sanders Theater, which can't hold all of you. Which means that they stick the latecomers into the Science Center, where you watch the whole thing...
...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...