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...report on cohabitation, Lowell Housemaster Zeph Stewart finds that "only about one out of every 3.5 students sleeps in a room not her own." "The statistics belie the insignificance of the problem," Stewart concludes, "Every student I talked with admitted that they really only slept on the living room sofa, or on the bedroom carpet, or platonically outside the covers--in all, just 'showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year Ahead: Less of the Same | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...Unpaged. Putnam. $12.95. Corey's grueling tales dwell lightly on melancholia and misfortune; the illustrations are precise, deadpan and tenebrific. Together they create a quaint, surreal world where horror and humor blandly lurk on every page. Fifteen of Gorey's works are collected here, including "The Curious Sofa" (which may be the ultimate sexual instrument). Only for those who think they would like to smile at an unfurling nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Costs and Colors of Christmas | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

First he poisoned his favorite dog Wolf. Then he took his new wife to his private quarters and sat down on a sofa beside her. Before them was a coffee table on which were a vase of roses, a vial of cyanide and his 7.65 Walther automatic pistol. He did not use the gun. Instead he swallowed the cyanide, and as he struggled for air, his wife shot him in the left temple with her own weapon, a 6.35 Walther. Then she poisoned herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Two Hitlers | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...maybe next time the airline/hotel will stop overbooking. There is probably no need to resort to such dramatic ploys as that of one airplane pilot who, informed by a Paris hotel that his long-booked room was not available, stripped to his underwear and lay down on a lobby sofa until the hotel management capitulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Louder! | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...deal toward livening up the whole performance. John Liller does quite adequate service as the slightly malicious Baby, the ostensible precipitant of all the madness. He is able to neatly upstage the rest of the cast in a couple of their less inspired confrontations just by sitting on a sofa eating mints. Fran Schuman breezed in as an utterly outrageous Madame Chouilloux. In a brief appearance she sustained a totally incredible pose, and had she spent any great amount of time on stage her manner would quickly have become overbearing. But for the moment it was appropriate. Joe Timko diametrically...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Going to Pot | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

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