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While the campaign made a big publicity splash yesterday, its substance remained nebulous. When asked about Derita's platform. Friend only said, "Joe wants the University to be a happy place...
...economy was indeed weak when Ronald Reagan took oil ice, largely because of the one of his predecessor's policies that he has continued to follow--tight money. The rest of Reagan's macroeconomic policy has all the coherence of a Jackson Pollack canvas--a splash of tax breaks for the rich, a big dollop for the Pentagon, and plenty of white space for the poor and working class Reagan's defense buildup might conceivably create a few jobs, but unity for highly skilled workers and engineers in the already humming weapons plants of the Sun Belt...
...more of the chicken, please, and another shred of the fish. A splash of the Chenin Blanc ... Perfect: a good, muscular working lunch. Serious but not pompous, the visitor tells himself, a lunch to give shape to the day. Claiborne, a soft-voiced Southerner with a little boy's grin, murmurs encouragement. Franey, a blocky, square-faced Burgundian who was chef at Manhattan's Le Pavilion restaurant during the proprietorship of the great Henri Soulé, watches with approval...
...separates upper class from lower, proper from gauche. Lately the House of Windsor has been demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy widower, Norman Lonsdale. He would be an atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that...
WITH "KOAX-KOAX-KOAX" and a splash, the Fogg Museum sets out to prove the necessity of art with humor and grace. Presented by the Fine Arts Students Association, the Stephen Sondheim-Burt Sheevelove version of Aristophanes. The Frogs may be the museum's finest piece currently on display, as a small group of actors offer up modern morals and poetry in this classic comedy...