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Burr B, with its staid academic blackboards, was an ideal arena for Goodman's irreverence. He swore freely, in Manhattan monotone, and looked up in blank surprise at the reactions he evoked. What words are taboo among confidential friends? He opened himself to the audience, it seemed, confiding his bisexuality, his extra-marital philandering: "I am very sexy," he told us. He reassured the skeptics with benevolent ridicule: "So she gets pregnant," he conceded with a friendly grin. "So what's so terrible...
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Fourteen leotard-clad 'Cliffies rolled around the living room floor of traditionally staid Cabot Hall last night, in the second of the informal, after-dinner Yoga classes offered this year...
...their 28th American League pennant by 10½ games, but New York fans merely yawned-the impossible Mets had drawn almost as many people. Then the Yankees got shut out 4-0 in the World Series, and everybody cheered. There was only one thing to do. Last week the staid old Yankees took a deep breath and signed Yogi Berra as their manager...
...Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal sales from its staid older brothers, which are still in production. But why worry? At the London show, Rover salesmen have already collected enough orders for the new car to keep Rover's plants running at full speed for an entire year...