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...Etonian Association: "I had an extraordinarily good fellow as one of my fag masters. Our contact bridged an age gap in a very successful way." Then too, fagging at Eton created a great many social distinctions that are a British specialty. For example, "tea fags" have a softer berth than common fags. Higher still are the "library fags," who serve seniors elected to the group known as "the Library." Library fags are excused from general calls of "Boy, up!" and "Boy, queue!" (an after-dinner general work session). Top rung for newcomers is the title Keeper of the Fags, given...
...three tunes. "I'd invite him to stand by the camera," says Kershner, "and he wouldn't. He'd say, 'It's your picture.' Then he'd stand way, way back somewhere, craning his neck." Kershner added his own touches, such as softer, more reflected lighting than the direct light Lucas employed in Star Wars. But he was always operating with Lucas' story, and he knew that Lucas, diffident as he was, was looking over his shoulder. If Lucas was in California, a videotape of the rushes was flown from London after...
...people interviewed expect Carter and Reagan to be their parties' nominees this summer, 58% of them wish that there were an acceptable alternative. Furthermore, nearly half of the people who say they would vote for Carter would do so without enthusiasm, indicating that his support is even softer than the numbers demonstrate...
...waves. The protrusions seem to heave themselves up, violently, out of the serene surface-an effect emphasized by a sudden change of texture from polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise; the softer plain around it is removed inch by inch, by erosion, a process mimicked in sculpture by the action of Noguchi's chisel and grinder...
When the bombing started, many journalists applied the very categories so assiduously fed out by White House p.r. people in the preceding weeks to cut me down to size: Nixon was identified with the "hard," I with the "softer" position. I did not indicate to any journalist that I had opposed the decision to use B-52s. But I also did little to dampen the speculation, partly out of a not very heroic desire to deflect the assault from my person. Some journalists may have mistaken my genuine depression about the seeming collapse of the peace efforts for a moral...