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...really expect any grand passions to survive. Romance emerges when Charles meets Laura, a secretary who works in the same office building. They meet; he falls in love; he asks her to move into his apartment--all in the same afternoon. There are meetings at greasy-spoon restaurants, at his house, at her house, the latter furnished with a plant and a mattress. "I went to buy a folding chair, but then, I thought of how awful it'd be to live in a house with a mattress and a folding chair," she explains, a creature of instinct rather than...
...also won't need complicated utensils--not even a measuring cup--just a fork, knife, and spoon...
...conservative diatribe found in campus journalism [Nov. 8] comes from the mouths of a handful of affluent brats who were spoon-fed through the '70s. Put them on an ethnically more diverse campus, rather than a Princeton or a Dartmouth, and then let us see how long their newspapers survive...
...took out a large ad in the Los Angeles Times: PAUL NEWMAN APOLOGIZES EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. He got hold of a print and showed it to friends in the screening room of his Westport home not long ago, supplying everyone with a metal pot and a large wooden spoon to beat on it with. "It was fun for about the first reel," he said, "and then the awfulness of the thing took over...
...trip is well worth taking. The author's father commands some literary notice as the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of imaginary verse epitaphs that celebrated and exposed small-town life in America. Nothing he wrote later earned as much praise and attention. He was nearing 60 and in his second marriage when Hilary was born in 1928. The young boy was both saddled and blessed with an old father who was already fading into vivid history. The poet regaled his child with anecdotes: "He could remember his grandmother on her deathbed, talking of Andy Jackson...