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...Reagan, still recuperating from his July cancer surgery, absorbed the urgency of the situation? Stuart Spencer, Reagan's longtime political consultant and one of the rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the President's habitual optimism. Spencer brushed off forebodings that Reagan's second term might be slipping into the kind of doldrums that affected Dwight Eisenhower's last four years, starting in 1957. "Eisenhower was tired of being President," Spencer argued. "This guy loves it and works at it. He's a different...
...beginning of the year, I met this girl who I thought was both cute and nice. My hallmates didn't agree, and every time she would come visit, they would tease me, so I didn't pursue her. Stuart should have pushed me, he might have won his bet that way. I had missed Love Story freshman year, and I guess I hadn't learned to ignore others' opposition and go for it. I guess we had a mutual unrequited love. I hope she is reading this. If so, come visit next year, and I promise I'll respond...
...people took time out of their busy schedules to gossip. One example impugned my all-too-pure reputation My roommates and a friend from down the hall were discussing pre-marital sex. I insisted that it was always wrong. They basically told me I was ridiculous. And my friend Stuart bet me that I would have sex before I graduated from Harvard. I insisted I'd remain a virgin until my wedding night. The loser had to fly the winner to Manhattan for a night and take the winner to the restaurant of his choice. One of the women from...
...exam left the next Tuesday, but one of the women upstairs had finished and was having a year-end party. She had bought a lot of champagne and had invited a few friends over to say farewell. We were all sitting around playing some innocuous drinking games, when Stuart arrived and suggested we play "I Never." You would go around the room and declare something you had never done; everyone who had done it had to drink. Since I had never been drunk before, everyone wanted to get me trashed: But I hadn't done too much, so they really...
Despite the slow start, industry executives predict that how-to tapes will eventually catch on. "If you look at a bookstore," says Stuart Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette...