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...Cavett and the studio audience, show is over?but not for me. Gliding offstage, I felt powered as if by bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation?all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line...
...tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. "I thought another ship had hit us in the fog," said West, but when he rushed on deck he saw three men in wetsuits heading toward Scheveningen beach in a motor-powered rubber boat. West sped back to his microphone and shouted: "May Day, May Day, this is Radio Northsea. We are on fire. A bomb...
...communities around them, and to examine what one administrator called "problems around the peripheries of the University." The group made two rest stops, one at the Business School and one at the Medical Area. Overseers are reported to have looked with interest out the window as the bus sped by 888 Memorial Drive, where a group of women occupied a building, though they did not stop there...
...platinum wig, perched on a mannequin head, that watched dumbly while its brunette alter-ego harangued a porter. I drove through Miami Beach to indulge myself in a deluge of costumes and Cadillacs. Later, in Palm Beach, Harold's grocery truck (of Southampton, L.I., and Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front of the Beach Club a wedding party sang college songs and split Jack Daniel's on the tenth tier of the wedding cake...
...recovery has been sped along by changes in the structure of industry. As Giscard d'Estaing put it, "We had an industry that was in the hands of an old establishment of bourgeois people, rather respectable, rather inefficient, reluctant to change. Since our entry into the Common Market, this has been entirely changed. The people are not the same; the old ones have faded away, disappeared...