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...Boston, they spell it pastromi, and pronounce it a little differently, but increasingly, it is becoming easier to locate a sandwich of it on a bulkie roll, no less, in the wee hours of the morning...
...made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial Italian boyhood in the 1920s: "I saw that there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces and fantastic cities that were a cross between Babylon and Mars. It was especially wonderful to know there was a country where people were...
...Conte Fantastique (for harp and strings); Florent Schmitt: Etude pour "Le Palais Hante." (Georges Pretre conducting the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel.) Thanks to the translations of Baudelaire and Mallarme, the works of Edgar Allan Poe became popular in France during the late 19th century. Inevitably, they cast their spell on the imaginations of the country's leading composers; Debussy, for example, long considered writing a pair of one-act operas based on Poe's fantasies. He made a start on The Fall of the House of Usher, preparing the libretto himself, but at his death he had composed only...
...PEARL BAILEY at Syracuse University: "Well, you'll want to go out with your degree and get yourself a job. Don't go out with your diploma in hand and say, 'I am going to be an executive.' I run into them every day. Half of them can't spell. Can't spell. Can't read. Can't write. So if you walk out of here with a diploma in your hand, you better walk out of here with something these professors put in your heads too. And retain it, or you're going to be in bad trouble...
...formally authorizing voluntary school prayer. "We're going to turn the heat up on Congress," vows conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie. For all the turmoil and upset generated, the case had a calming effect on at least one person. Said a delighted Ishmael Jaffree: "Now I know how to spell relief...