Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stiff Exam. Since he was only 15 when he graduated from Exeter, his parents decided to take him and his younger brother Tom (now a historian-researcher for the Colonial Williamsburg restoration project) on a yearlong tour of the world. On his return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral...
Chris Pardee got some stiff competition in the high jump from Cadet sophomore Karl Kremser, but pushed over the bar at 6 ft., 7 3-4 in. on his second try to seal the victory. Pardee also took a second in the broad jump, behind Harvey Thomas's winning leap...
...even these two were a little too forced and stiff, and that was the problem for most of the other actors, too. Thomas King, playing Rosita's sweetheart Cocoliche, was appropriately moonstruck. Buddy Mear, as Currito, her rejected lover, and Chris Simmons, as her father, were simply wooden, and the scenes they were in never quite came...
...types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear light into one of Manhattan's open wounds...
...stepped Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to yet another stop in last week's Washington-to-Manhattan round of receptions, rubberneck tours, shopping expeditions, luncheons, cocktail parties, teas, dinner dances and dinners without dances. Though their digestions may have suffered, their smiles were undimmed, the lips stiff and upper throughout...