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Vignettes of this broad country snatched on the run can be misleading; they are apt to go stale by morning or obscure what is real. Yet the winter's impressions are supported by the opinion polls; so maybe it is worth some recounting as we move toward an uncertain spring...
These 105 songs dominated the airwaves in 1973. (Most grew stale during their peaks of popularity due to overkill by AM radio stations. Why is a record worth hearing ten times a day in April, and not at all a couple of months later?) From them I have selected ten "plums" worth remembering and ten "prunes" best forgotten...
...expanded ambulatory care services. Haase admits that ambulatory care is not the most attractive field medicine has to offer. But the need is there, and if women are going to fill those positions in ambulatory health care, Haase said, "We need rewards for them so they don't get stale. We need to insure the stability of jobs for women, but we also need to encourage their upward-mobility...
...seventies, the old man recounts his slow development 200 years of breast-feeding. Listing great discoverers of history, he mentions Onan--"He discovered himself." But after relating his sensuous experience with Dolly Madison in a vat of ice cream--"My tush was cold for a week" he cracks a stale Playboy joke: "The presidents if they're not doing it to their wives, they're doing it to the nation...
Broadway's favorite pastime this season is unwrapping mummies. Unfortunately, Gigi has been unwrapped once too often and shows stale signs of deterioration. It began as a novel by Colette and was then adapted to play form with Audrey Hepburn in the title role. Next came the charming Lerner and Loewe film musical starring Leslie Caron. Now we have the stage musical as the ultimate anticlimax...